Perfecting Your Craft: Does It Really Take 10,000 Hours?
September 7, 2017
By Kristen Harris There is an oft-cited “rule” that 10,000 hours of deliberate practice are needed to become world-class in any field. People have latched onto this 10,000 Hours Rule, especially after Malcolm Gladwell’s best-selling Outliers, because it’s short, simple and easy to remember. Does this mean you can’t be world-class in less than 10,000 hours? Or that you’re guaranteed to be world-class if you put in 10,000 hours of practice? No, and no. It’s more complex than this. What’s true about the 10,000 Hours Rule? The original research(1) shows that
