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Scientists Debunk The Myth That 10,000 Hours Of Practice Makes You An Expert
- dalke 13y agoThere are two issues here. One is "10,000 hours of practice" and the other is "10,000 hours of deliberative practice." I wish fastcodesign had downplayed the Gladwell/Blink reference, as it makes it harder to figure out what they are talking about. I haven't read Blink to know if Gladwell emphasizes the first or the second. I have read some of Ericsson's works. The first of these is a myth. No research has ever backed it up, and Ericsson's work outright says that deliberative practice is the key part, and that only about 4 hours of deliberative practice are possible per day. The actual research papers (which cost $36 each!) concern Ericsson's "deliberative practice" definition only. The new article is http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0160289614000087 http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0160289614... and response http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0160289613001736 http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0160289613... .
- warmfuzzykitten 13y agoNo one ever asserted that 10,000 hours of any kind of practice was guaranteed to make one an expert. Gladwell used it as a minimum and he did make the distinction between the kind of practice budding experts did vs. meaningless repetition, as does Ericsson. You can find a copy of Ericsson's response to the latest study at http://www.psy.fsu.edu/faculty/ericsson/2014%20Ericsson%20reply%20to%20criticisms%20in%20INTELLIGENCE%20posted.pdf http://www.psy.fsu.edu/faculty/ericsson/2014%20Ericsson%20re...