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For as interesting and smart as this article is, it was really jarring and annoying to see Malcolm Gladwell's ideas branded upon it everywhere. It's so frustra
by awakeasleep 13y ago
For as interesting and smart as this article is, it was really jarring and annoying to see Malcolm Gladwell's ideas branded upon it everywhere.
It's so frustrating to see "Science-style bullshit" taken as gospel by intelligent, creative, and usually critically thinking people.
- 6cxs2hd6 13y agoI didn't get the sense that he intended "10,000 hours" as a pseudo-scientific assertion of fact. It's a useful poetic phrase to express the observation that mastery takes time. Sure you could call that a Captain Obvious observation. However he used it in opposition to the idea that great programmers can master a new language in a few weeks. Since that idea is so popular, its opposite apparently is not so obvious.
- zimpenfish 13y ago"mastery takes time" Also requires talent (or skill, genetic disposition, etc., call it what you will)
- stdbrouw 13y agoHe mentions 10,000 hours once or twice, and uses the word "mastery." If you hadn't ever heard of Gladwell, you wouldn't even know he's making a reference to anything at all.