KEY INSIGHTS THE LEARNING LOOP The “Work Harder” Convention We need 10,000 hours of practice to master a job skill. Practice—repetition—makes perfect. The New “Work Smarter” Perspective It isn’t how many hours you practice. It’s how you learn. And that “how” differs in the workplace from the deliberate practice pursued by athletes and musicians. The best performers at work implement the learning loop, in which the quality—and not the quantity—of each iteration matters most.
