Six keys to achieving excellence

ref: http://blogs.hbr.org/schwartz/2010/08/six-keys-to-being-excellent-at.html

1. Pursue what you love
2. Do the hardest work first
3. Practice intensely, without interruption for short periods of no longer than 90 minutes and then take a break
4. Seek expert feedback, in intermittent doses
5. Take regular renewal breaks.
6. Ritualize practice