Study Of Violinists Debunks The 10,000-Hour-To-Mastery Rule

The work is the latest blow to the 10,000-hour rule, the idea promoted in Malcolm Gladwell’s 2008 book, Outliers,which has been taken to mean that enough practice will make an expertof anyone. In the book, Gladwell states that “ten thousand hours is themagic number of greatness”. – The Guardian