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from Ericsson's well known paper,
The Role of Deliberate Practice in the Acquisition of Expert Performance

my impression was that Ericsson believes less in the importance of natural ability than deliberate practice, but it is apparent that a person with a higher natural ability of the kind described by Galton has a greater potential to be actualized by deliberate practice than one with lesser such ability

the paper is well worth a skim at least, if you are interested