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		skywhopper on Aug 21, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The 10,000 Hour Rule Is Not Real IIRC, the 10,000 hour rule is for becoming "expert" at a skill, not for becoming an Outlier, or for gaining "success". Those "best musicians" with an average of 10,000 hours by age 20 are, by any reasonable definition, experts at their craft.

lostcolony on Aug 21, 2014 [–]

But not those chumps who only have 9999 hours! They're not experts ~yet~!

Even if you redefine it not as 'mastery' but as 'expert(ise)', it's still absurd.

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