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IIRC, the 10,000 hour rule is for becoming "expert" at a skill, not for becoming an Outlier, or for gaining "success". Those "best musicians" with an average of
by skywhopper 12y ago
IIRC, the 10,000 hour rule is for becoming "expert" at a skill, not for becoming an Outlier, or for gaining "success". Those "best musicians" with an average of 10,000 hours by age 20 are, by any reasonable definition, experts at their craft.
- lostcolony 12y agoBut not those chumps who only have 9999 hours! They're not experts ~yet~! Even if you redefine it not as 'mastery' but as 'expert(ise)', it's still absurd.