Basically, the rule claims that anyone can become an expert if they spend ten thousand hours practicing. In other words, ten thousand hours of practice is necessary and sufficient to become an expert.
When you think about it, that idea is incredibly silly.
If you spend an hour a day cooking, you’ll reach 10k hours by age 50, let’s say. Is the average 50 year old an expert?
They say you spend 80k hours in your career. Are people 1/8th the way into their careers experts?
There are a lot of people I encounter who have been playing poker for decades and never progress past the beginner stage.
When you think about it, that idea is incredibly silly.
If you spend an hour a day cooking, you’ll reach 10k hours by age 50, let’s say. Is the average 50 year old an expert?
They say you spend 80k hours in your career. Are people 1/8th the way into their careers experts?
There are a lot of people I encounter who have been playing poker for decades and never progress past the beginner stage.