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New Research Casts Doubt On the "10,000 Hour Rule" of Expertise

Posted by samzenpus on from the some-amount-of-practice-makes-perfect dept.

First time accepted submitter Scroatzilla writes What makes someone rise to the top in music, games, sports, business, or science? This question is the subject of one of psychology's oldest debates. Malcolm Gladwell's '10,000 hours' rule probably isn't the answer. Recent research has demonstrated that deliberate practice, while undeniably important, is only one piece of the expertise puzzle—and not necessarily the biggest piece.

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  1. Agreed. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    I mastered masturbation in far less time.

  2. Gladwell by Forthan+Red · · Score: 1, Funny

    Gladwell's is a master of relabeling the obvious. Looks like he picked the wrong research to slap his own label on this time.

    1. Re:Gladwell by NoNonAlphaCharsHere · · Score: 3, Funny

      Some people cannot sing in tune. Most people do not need to be taught to do this, they can just do it straight away. If you can't sing in tune there is little point trying to be a singer.

      Tell that to Neil Young.

  3. Re:The difference between skill and talent by BarbaraHudson · · Score: 4, Funny

    You can train a skill, but you cannot learn talent.

    And Justin Bieber is proof that a lack of both doesn't correlate with success.

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  4. Can be much less by bakes · · Score: 3, Funny

    You can get awesome at anything in much less than 10,000 hrs if you have a montage.

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