Re:The 10,000-hour rule is wrong and perpetuates a cruel myth
by Clubber on Monday March 13, 2017 @08:57AM
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The quickest path to success is having rich relatives and friends. Everyone should just pursue that.
All joking aside, even if they are placebos (and Myer's Briggs certainly is), whatever it takes to motivate people towards excellence to me would be a positive.
Re:The 10,000-hour rule is wrong and perpetuates a cruel myth
by LanceH on Monday March 13, 2017 @11:26AM
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Ten thousand hours of deliberate practice is hardly a placebo.
Whether it's Myer's Briggs, or 10,000 hour rule, or some other self-help book with a reasonable premise -- I feel like most of the time it's just some reasonable premise taken to an extreme.
Yes, if you want to be good at something, you'll have to practice a lot. Yes, practicing mindfully is better than just putting in hours. Yes, there are different kinds of people and you can (sometimes) broadly characterize them. I find it hard to respect people that read points like those, take them to the extreme, and then it becomes their sole mindset for 6/12 months until the next thing comes along.