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Re:The 1,000-hour rule (2009) by hammock on Tuesday August 19, 2014 @11:02AM (#8197660)
"Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is I don't know which half." - John Wanamaker

The question is WHICH of those 80 hours account for 51.2% of the value of 10K hours of practice. It's not necessarily the FIRST 80 hours.

It's very possible you could get 8% of your skill in less than a second; it just might come at a lightning-strike eureka or moment of epiphany during hour 8,679.

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Re:The 1,000-hour rule (2009) by simoncarter on Tuesday August 19, 2014 @11:30AM (#8197842)
I think people also forget that the point of the 10k hours is not just the time, but also the fact that experts actively spend time figuring our their weaknesses, and focus on that, while making sure their strengths don't start to wilt. Planning rather than just doing, are also important.
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