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Besides the fact that many consider the 10,000 hours a myth, please keep in mind that the theory is about 10,000 hours of practice. I bet that even people who
by sobani 9y ago
Besides the fact that many consider the 10,000 hours a myth, please keep in mind that the theory is about 10,000 hours of practice.
I bet that even people who have spend 20 years on side projects haven't reached those 10K hours of practice yet.
- hinkley 9y agoWe aren’t talking about people moonlighting as developers. We’re talking about people in the industry working on software every waking hour. Roughly 220 work days a year, 5 hours a day at work if you are full time, 6 if you dabble a bit outside of office hours, that’s around 5 years out of school, which isn’t too far off from my experiences prior to Malcolm Gladwell.
- sobani 9y agoWorking != practice. When I'm building some CRUD interface for my job, there's nothing I'm practicing with that. When I spend my entire day doing that, I've gained 0 relevant hours for Malcom's 10K.