Here’s an interesting snippet from Malcom Gladwell’s upcoming book 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.
I’ve also read that number about three years ago in one of my issues of Scientific American, and I suppose that study – as well as many others – has helped the research community settle on the figure.
(via DF)
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