That's actually not the point, according to the man himself in his interview on freakonomics. He said that the point was more about the support needed to become

That's actually not the point, according to the man himself in his interview on freakonomics. He said that the point was more about the support needed to become an expert. Separately, the research he based this on is about deliberate practice. If you're not going to practice deliberately, you might in fact be better off not practicing at all. """MALCOLM GLADWELL: The 10,000-hour stuff that I put in Outliers was really only intended to perform a very specific narrative function — or not narrative function, but argumentative function. To me the point of 10,000 hours is: if it takes that long to be good, you can’t do it by yourself. If you have to play chess for 10 years in order to be a great chess player, then that means that you can’t have a job, or maybe if you have a job it can’t be a job that takes most of your time..."""