Keys to being awasome at everything - by Tony Schwartz

The list is not exhaustive

1. Pursue what you love
2. Do the hardest work first
3. Practise intensely - 90 minutes sessions, no more than four and a half hours per day, it takes 10,000 hours to achieve expertise.
4. seek expert feedback, in intermittent doses
5. take regular renewal breaks
6. Ritualise practise - build specific inviolable time for activities 
7. Prioritise

Books to read

1. Talent is overated - Geoffrey Colvin
2. The talent Code - Daniel Coyle
3. Outliers - Malcolm Gladwell
4. The Genius in all of us - David Schenk
5. Bounce - Mathew Syed