Hnh. Thoughts on 10K hours.
Ted’s reading this book about learning stuff, and the 10,000 hour thing. The author kinda posits that the first 2K hours are foundational, the rest are mastery. I’m generalizing wildly abt the author’s stance here bc, like, I haven’t read it, BUT:
I think that’s a friggin intriguing place to start. Like. Like. I’m sure that over the course of my life I’ve spent somewhere between 5-600 hours studying Spanish. Definitely not more, maybe not even more than 500. But we’ll give me the 600, because wh...
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I would certainly go along with it, and don't forget that areas of interest keep evolving, as do the skills needed to retain mastery in an changing environment. This is why I now (at college) understand why it's said that a degree over ten years old is not much use.