you can easily become a local expert with as few as a hundred hours of deliberate practice. With two hours of practice a day, it requires just around two months. You read it right. Even if you have never laid your hands on a guitar, with the right kind of practice, you can impress people at your college festival or company using your newfound guitar skills in the next two months. I believe this realisation has to be one of the most liberating ones, enabling us to recognise that what we can do with our minds and bodies is not limited by an old, arbitrary definition of talent, but is very much a
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