I met a guy who spent several years jumping dirt bikes. I asked him, as I often do when I meet people with unusual skills, what was the key to doing it well.
His answer: "Committing."
I have this well established practice: when the entire household goes to bed, I do curl development for two more hours. Every day, for 23 years and counting. Sometimes a little more, sometimes a little less.
Whatever you do consistently for 23 years end up a lot. twitter.com/bagder/status/…
As the saying goes, 80% of life is just showing up. And if you decide you're just going to show up in a certain activity for long enough, many interesting things can happen that you would have NO talent for under shorter time horizons.
Funny how sheer quantities of lightly committed "involvement time" can be a substitute for a LOT of rarer, more impressive traits like intelligence, peak effort, knowledge, insightfulness etc. More time substitutes dumb trial and error for basically everything.