Deliberate practice: Is that all it takes to become an expert?

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Mapping the Landscape of Creativity Support Tools in HCI (2019, background): “[77]) and Weisberg’s work on experts and geniuses [177].”
When quantity is not enough: Disentangling the roles of practice time, self-regulation and deliberate practice in musical achievement (2015, background): “Hambrick et al. (2013) re-evaluated the results of eight observational or retrospective studies investigating the links between deliberate practice and musical performance and concluded that approximately 70% of the variance in performance could be explained by factors other than the concept of…”
Personality related traits as predictors of music practice: Underlying environmental and genetic influences (2015, background): “It is generally accepted that music practice is the best predictor of expertise in music (Ackerman, 2014; Hambrick et al., 2014; Lehmann & Ericcson, 1997).”
Why expert performance is special and cannot be extrapolated from studies of performance in the general population: A response to criticisms. (2014, background): “Several contributors to the special issue (de Bruin et al., 2014-this issue; Grabner, 2014-this issue; Hambrick et al., 2014-this issue) reported that samples of active young chess players tend to have higher than average IQs.”