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Interestingly, if you multiply 15 years by 365 days and the two hours a day mentioned at some point in the article, you get 10,950 hours, which is remarkably cl
by FalconNL 16y ago
Interestingly, if you multiply 15 years by 365 days and the two hours a day mentioned at some point in the article, you get 10,950 hours, which is remarkably close to Malcolm Gladwell's claim from the book Outliers that it takes 10,000 hours to become a superstar at something.
- limist 16y agoYes, and unlike singing, programming can be comfortably done for more than 2 hours a day, without much risk of long-term body/voice damage. :)
- george_morgan 16y agoAlthough incorrect posture over 10,000 hours sounds like a recipe for RSI.
- stratospark 16y agoWatch out for the carpal tunnel.
- tudorachim 16y agoThe claim originally came from the Cambridge Handbook of Expertise and Expert Performance (http://www.amazon.com/Cambridge-Expertise-Performance-Handbooks-Psychology/dp/0521600812 http://www.amazon.com/Cambridge-Expertise-Performance-Handbo...).
- studer 16y agoUmm, that's a bit backwards -- the 10k hours number comes from research by K. Anders Ericsson et al, and the first papers mentioning this are from the early nineties, if not earlier (as for book references, it's discussed in Ericsson's "The Road To Excellence" that predates the Cambridge Handbook by a decade).
- limist 16y agoYes, here's one of Ericsson's landmark papers on the topic, 1993: http://projects.ict.usc.edu/itw/gel/EricssonDeliberatePracticePR93.pdf http://projects.ict.usc.edu/itw/gel/EricssonDeliberatePracti...