Most of us have believed that all it takes to get good at something is time. If you put enough hours in, eventually you will be great. But this isn’t always true. In Ericsson’s research, ten thousand hours of practice was a common characteristic amongst world-class performers, but it was not the only characteristic. If anything, ten thousand hours is more a description of expert performance than a prescription for how anyone can achieve expertise. Every performer in the study embodied a certain kind of practice. It wasn’t just the quantity of hours they accumulated but the quality of practice
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