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by barce 1772 days ago
There's lack of proof to back up the 10k hours. I get that he has worked 15 years at prestigious companies but I have to take his word on it. Some aphorisms jelled with me but other's didn't, so we're again at a "he said; she said" impasse.
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He’s an ubermensch to be perfectly clear - most things that work for him aren’t going to work or apply to the rest of us because we aren’t tall, white, chiseled Adonises that went to Ivies and worked at Google.

I think most people should take the advice of experts like him - people that didn’t start from the bottom - with several grains of salt.