I think you and a lot of other people here are missing one very important point. It is not "10K Hours" that does the magic it is "deliberate practice" for 10K h

I think you and a lot of other people here are missing one very important point. It is not "10K Hours" that does the magic it is "deliberate practice" for 10K hours. Most in the profession of programming can't do 10K hours of deliberate practice because that would mean planning your career and skills like an Olympic Runner. Realizing what you are bad at and leaving everything to work on it. Say you realize that you are great at algorithms but not good at reading huge pieces of code written by others.