I don't think that's what the author was trying to say. The point of the 10,000 hours rule lies in it being the largest factor towards success... not in it bei

I don't think that's what the author was trying to say. The point of the 10,000 hours rule lies in it being the largest factor towards success... not in it being the only factor. This article doesn't misrepresent that position... instead, it tries to show that there are factors larger than practice for many skills. Given the entire body of evidence from Outliers and some of the studies mentioned in the article, though, I would come to the conclusion that the magnitude to which various factors matter differ by the skill being measured.