n the article, “What it Takes to be Great,” Geoffrey Colvin maintains that you need deliberate practice to achieve greatness. Colvin’s point is that practice makes perfect. Geoffrey’s claim rests upon the questionable assumption that are not born with natural gifts. One reason that Colvin maintains the position of deliberate practice is that most professionals in sports, music, and chess needed to have multiple years of practice. According to the article, researchers studied Bobby Fischer, a chess grandmaster at 16, needed needed at least 10 years of practice. An example of deliberate practice, is Michael Jordan. He got kicked out of his high school basketball team because he wasn’t good enough. This proves/supports that he needed to have multiple
