Interesting because it is in direct contradiction to a lot of research on expertise which strongly suggests that expertise takes time (and surprisingly, regardl

Interesting because it is in direct contradiction to a lot of research on expertise which strongly suggests that expertise takes time (and surprisingly, regardless of the field, it takes more or less 10 years) - summarized in this book http://www.amazon.com/Cambridge-Handbook-Expertise-Expert-Performance/dp/0521600812 http://www.amazon.com/Cambridge-Handbook-Expertise-Expert-Pe... Of course we've all read Peter Norvig's "Teach yourself programming in 10 years" http://norvig.com/21-days.html http://norvig.com/21-days.html Caveat: Just doing the same thing for 10 years does not an expert make. To quote Norvig's article "the maximal level of performance for individuals in a given domain is not attained automatically as a function of extended experience, but the level of performance can be increased even by highly experienced individuals as a result of deliberate efforts to improve."