The article talks about how practice makes perfect and how the need for practice has progressed from time to time. Records being broken because of the focus and dedication towards the sport. I was always told growing up that practice makes perfect and this article provides facts of how universities have conducted research to prove that point. Then it goes into specific sports such as chess to prove their points specifically within certain sports.

compelling moment within the text would be the experiment done to break through memory barriers where Dr. Ericsson and others were able to prove that the amount of hours dedicated to memorizing random numbers was a key factor in being able to actually recite all 102 numbers. It just helps to prove that idea that practice makes perfect.

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The author’s purpose would be to inform readers of how practice does help break limit barriers and proves this by using actual facts like the Olympics and other sports. Also to inform the reader that with a limit barrier could be broken it only takes the sheer determination and dedication one has to put in hours of practice in any activity because everyone knows there is always room for improvement.