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Mastery<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
by Robert Greene<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u23f1 11 minutes reading time<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Have you ever heard of the 10,000-hour rule? It is a concept that appears throughout Malcolm Gladwell\u2019s book, \u201cOutliers\u201d published in 2008. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The ten thousand hours rule is based on the research of Anders Ericsson, who studied expert performance and domains such as medicine, music, chess, and sports, focusing exclusively on extended deliberate practice as a means of how expert performers acquire their superior performance. In the book, Gladwell states, \u201cten thousand hours is the magic number of greatness\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Gladwell claims that greatness requires enormous amounts of time, using the talents of The Beatles and Bill Gates\u2019 computer savvy as examples. He explained that to achieve this milestone, which he considered to be the key to success in any field, you simply need to practice a specific task 3 hours a day for ten years. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
As an example of this ten thousand hours rule, Gladwell cites the Beatles in Hamburg, Germany; over 1200 performances from 1960 to 1964, amassing more than ten thousand hours of playing time, therefore, meeting the ten thousand hours rule. Bill Gates amassed ten thousand hours when he got access to a high school computer in 1968 at the age of 13 spending the ten thousand hours learning to program before he started Microsoft.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In 1993, Anders Ericsson, Ralf Krampe, and Clemens Tesch-Romer did a study on a group of violin students in Berlin. According to the results, the study found that the most accomplished of those students put in an average of ten thousand hours of practice by the time they were twenty years old. That paper would go on to become a major part of the scientific literature on expert performers, but it was not until 2008, with the publication of \u201cOutliers,\u201d that the paper\u2019s results attracted much attention outside the scientific community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Now, Ericsson and co-author Robert Pool have a new book coming out called, Peak: Secrets from the New Science of Expertise. They recently laid out some of its main points in an article for Salon, where they pointed out the fundamental flaws with the 10,000-hour rule:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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\u23f1 11 minutes reading time<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\ud83c\udfa7 Audio version available<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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