Natural Talent is not the basis of success
Most of the best athletes in Kenya are from the same village!
In the UK Matthew Syed in the book bounce says most of the top ranked players in the UK lived in the same street!
what is happening here, in both places lived the best coach of the country and naturally you have lots of boys and girls playing that sport. Opportunity and not talent is the key to success. Of course you can read in Bounce that the UK table tennis coach pushed their boys to the limit. They played hour & hours and they have good adversaries to practice.
Matthew Syed won the Commonwealth table-tennis championship three times, among other high-level accomplishments as a table-tennis player. Does this mean he is naturally talented? As told in his book Bounce, Syed eventually decided that his success was due to hard work and a series of valuable opportunities.
He had the good fortune of living in the catchment for a primary school in England where there was a teacher who was the country's top table-tennis coach. At one time, half the top table-tennis players in England were from one street and its vicinity - which alone goes against the idea that natural talent is the basis for success in a sport.
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