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"This idea - that excellence at a complex task requires a critical, minimum level of practice - surfaces again and again in studies of expertise. In fact, researchers have settled on what they believe is a magic number for true expertise: 10,000 hours."
Malcolm Gladwell, Outliers. I’ve always heard 10 years cited as the minimum amount of time required to reach expertise, but I find the 10,000 hours figure more compelling: it emphasizes effort instead of time.
