Peak: Secrets From The New Science of Expertise

by K. Anders Ericsson

Simply by interacting strongly with their children, parents motivate their children to develop similar interests.

Today, for example, a quarter of marathon runners in their sixties can be expected to outperform more than half of their competitors between the ages of twenty and fifty-four.

They need to try and fail — but with ready access to models that show what success looks like.