I finished re-reading Cal Newport's So Good they Can't Ignore You a couple of days ago. Been thinking a lot lately about how people become wickedly good at what they do. I'm just trying to grab some ideas that I can put into practice in my own learning journey. Here's a great quote in So Good they Can't Ignore You that's pretty much the basis for the book title.
In his 2007 interview with Charlie Rose, here's how Steve Martin explained his strategy for learning the banjo: "[I thought], if I stay with it, then one day I will have been playing for forty years, and anyone who sticks with something for forty years will be pretty good at it."