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Originally Posted by The Sultan Of Smut
It's a nice idea and while it's true that practice makes a huge difference it doesn't matter how much you put in not everyone will become Wayne Gretzky. Simple as that. The author knows this too I imagine but including it would ruin his sales.
To illustrate the authors example I know many hockey players. A couple are pro but the rest are not. They all started in peewee and played straight into junior A though only a couple went on from there. Neither that went pro were Sidney Crosby no matter how 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,much they practiced.
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from my op-
outliers are the best and the brightest, the most famous and the most successful. the
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.
nevertheless, he does spend a couple chapters on practice and bases his statements on quite a bit of research that backs it up.
but taking the 10,000 hour rule out of that equation and looking at it by itself, the author never claims 10,000 hours = wayne gretzky.
he does argue that 10,000 hours (on average) of appropriately focused practice = an expert on cognitively demanding activities.