Outliers may well be excellent, but they still skew your results
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.
This extract from Malcolm Gladwell’s next book, Outliers investigates what it takes to become the best. In short, it appears to be talent, drive, time, practice — and a massive amount of luck.
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