02-07-2014, 10:57 PM
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Originally Posted by Relentless
What else is part of the 'environment' ?
Timing? Capital? Education? Skill? Location?
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From my thread on outliers-
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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.
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just one of many research papers on the topic,
http://www.uvm.edu/~pdodds/files/pap...csson2007a.pdf |
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