Talent Is Overrated (English, Paperback, Colvin Geoff)

Explains how Talent is overrated very well. It explains how some people train a certain way to becoming super-human.
However it is very simplistic in explaining how you can apply the principle of "Deliberate Practice". It also doesn't touch upon the compounding of deliberate practice over related / unrelated fields (for example pro efficiency in playing the guitar will mean you will need lesser practice to get pretty good at another instrument relatively fast)

“Ambitious Parents who are currently playing baby Mozart video for their kids would be disappointed to learn that Mozart became Mozart by working furiously hard” says Geoff. He is off to a dramatic start by taking Mozart and Tiger Woods as examples.

In fact, if you have a convincing self explanation as to why you didn't make it to the world class in a given area, don’t ever come near this book – it simply destroys all such explanations. There is no question between “nature” versus “nurture...