Comment on The Subtle Art Of Reaching Your Potential by Taylor Pearson

Great share, thank you! My sense was that Ericsson was nitpicking (which academics are prone to do). After reading, that’s still my sense. The core point stands.

“Gladwell did get one thing right, and it is worth repeating because it’s crucial: becoming accomplished in any field in which there is a well-established history of people working to become experts requires a tremendous amount of effort exerted over many years.”

Whether it takes 5k hours or 20k hours and exactly what counts as delib...