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Life In The Labyrinth's avatar

This was great! Oddly there is a minor error in the quoted research, which says: “For example, the range for the masters was 832 to 24,284 h–a difference of nearly three orders of magnitude.”

Of course this a three-fold difference, not a difference of three orders of magnitude! The point still stands, though as three-fold is still a lot, but it is much less than three orders of magnitude.

Weird that this error made it into publication.

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Jahan's avatar

This is not a 3-fold difference. It is a 30-fold difference.

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Life In The Labyrinth's avatar

Haha, thanks, you’re right!

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Sean's avatar

"the Rule says that 10,000 hours of deliberate practice is both necessary and sufficient for world-class expertise." Does anyone actually believe the 'sufficient' bit? I could be Messi?

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Sean's avatar

"the Rule says that 10,000 hours of deliberate practice is both necessary and sufficient for world-class expertise." Does anyone actually believe the 'sufficient' bit? I could be Messi?

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Sean's avatar

"the Rule says that 10,000 hours of deliberate practice is both necessary and sufficient for world-class expertise." Does anyone actually believe the 'sufficient' bit? I could be Messi?

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Sean's avatar

"the Rule says that 10,000 hours of deliberate practice is both necessary and sufficient for world-class expertise." Does anyone actually believe the 'sufficient' bit? I could be Messi?

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Sean's avatar

"the Rule says that 10,000 hours of deliberate practice is both necessary and sufficient for world-class expertise." Does anyone actually believe the 'sufficient' bit? I could be Messi?

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Sean's avatar

"the Rule says that 10,000 hours of deliberate practice is both necessary and sufficient for world-class expertise." Does anyone actually believe the 'sufficient' bit? I could be Messi?

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Mike Lawrence's avatar

They left out the variance in hours, it’s that simple. I thought this post would be much shorter.

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Chuck37's avatar

If nothing else, there's a genetic component to having the ability to focus on one topic for 10,000 hours and to have the innate ability to be able to do actual deliberate practice where you can properly judge yourself and be at the right level of challenge. I'm skeptical of any of these studies in that while people *might* be able to guess how many hours they spent practicing, estimating how many of those were real deliberate practice as opposed to goofing off (in music, playing stuff you already know, or noodling around) is even harder.

I like the 10K rule though. I read all those books and found them inspiring. Telling people they either have it or they don't is disempowering. I hope that's not true.

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