01-06-2014, 08:13 PM
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Outliers: The Story of Success [the 10,000 hour rule]
anyone here read this? got a copy for xmas and am tearing through it. xcllnt read.
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outliers are the best and the brightest, the most famous and the most successful. the author asks the question: what makes high-achievers different?
His answer is that we pay too much attention to what successful people are like, and too little attention to where they are from: that is, their culture, their family, their generation, and the idiosyncratic experiences of their upbringing. Along the way he explains the secrets of software billionaires, what it takes to be a great soccer player, why Asians are good at math, and what made the Beatles the greatest rock band.
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he talks at length about the 10,000 hour rule, if you want to be world-class at something, it takes 10,000 hours of practice.
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In essence, Ericsson?s theory suggests that sufficient practice in a particular skill can take anyone to a proficiency level equivalent to that of a top classical musician. To illustrate the point, Gladwell focuses on one of Ericsson?s key studies on violinists at Berlin?s Academy of Music. Students had begun playing at around five years of age, all putting in similar practice times, but by age eight, the practice times began to diverge, some practising more than others. By age twenty, the elite performers totalled 10,000 hours of practice each, while the merely good students had totalled 8,000 hours, and the lesser-able performers had just over 4,000 hours of practice.
Ericsson and his colleagues discovered a similar pattern in professional and amateur pianists. By the age of twenty, amateurs had put in 2,000 hours of practice, whereas professionals had done considerably more ? reaching 10,000 hours, in fact.
?The idea that excellence at performing a complex task requires a critical minimum level of practice surfaces again and again in studies of expertise,? writes Gladwell in Outliers.
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