There’s No Such Thing As Natural Talent. There’s Only Work.

By Dimitrije Puzovic

George Shuba was committed to his craft: baseball.

Every winter during the baseball offseason, Shuba would take up the same routine: swing a heavy bat 600 times a day, every single day. When author Roger Kahn later referenced Shuba’s swing as “as natural as a smile,” Shuba’s had a quick response, “You call that natural? I swung a 44-ounce bat 600 times a night…