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by paulcole 2726 days ago
Very convenient that it’s a nice round number.
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Erickssons original number was more like 10 years of daily deliberate practice increasing drom 0.5 to a max of 4/hours per day iirc for experienced people. It was roughly observational based on violinists and pianists. The original paper was interesting.
Yeah I think it was Gladwell (shocker) who shoehorned himself into the concept and made up the 10,000 hour rule.
Indeed. “10000 hours” rings as true as your average Ted Talk.