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10,000 Hours

post from Daring Fireball on 15 November 2008 12:23:00 PM. © Daring Fireball

Fascinating excerpt from Malcolm Gladwell’s soon-to-be-released Outliers: The Story of Success:

This idea — that excellence at a complex task requires a critical, minimum level of practice — surfaces again and again in studies of expertise. In fact, researchers have settled on what they believe is a magic number for true expertise: 10,000 hours.

(Thanks to Tom Davis.)

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2008/nov/15/malcolm-gladwell-outliers-extract