The Myth of the Natural
Every time an athlete makes something look effortless, someone in the crowd says: “They are a natural.”
No. They are not.
What you are watching is the result of thousands of hours of repetition performed in rooms where no one was watching. The fluidity, the ease, the apparent effortlessness – these are the products of practice so deep that it has become invisible.
There is no such thing as a natural. There is only work you cannot see.