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Yeah, Gladwell talks endlessly about this on basically every podcast that asks him on, and he tries very hard to clarify that his "10,000 rule" was illustrative
by dimino 10y ago
Yeah, Gladwell talks endlessly about this on basically every podcast that asks him on, and he tries very hard to clarify that his "10,000 rule" was illustrative, not to be taken literally, as in "9,999... 10,000! Okay I've mastered this!"
- lubujackson 10y agoWhich means he is stating "practice a lot and you'll get good." Which would be obvious if it wasn't also false. You also need to be practicing the right things in the right way and evolve what you practice as you develop. If you put a person in a room with a piano and had them futz with it for 10,000 hours they will end up much worse than someone who has a dedicated coach, sheet music and proper exercises. Pretty much everything Gladwell posits is just some folksy wisdom pretending to be fresh insight wearing a shoddy Einstein wig.
- dimino 10y agoHave you read "Outliers"? He talks endlessly about deliberate practice. He is not saying "practice a lot and you'll get good".