The 10,000-Hour Rule Is A Myth. Here’s Why.
You don’t need 10,000 hours to become an expert.
Yes, you can achieve a level of mastery in 400 hours, you don’t need 10,000 hours.
So, I was reading a new book recommended to me by a friend years ago.
Yes, I only got around reading it now because somehow I lost track of my book recommendations, but somehow remembered it last week.
The book is Creative Curve by Allen Gannett published in 2018 and is highly regarded as one of the best books about creativity and how it applies in practice.
One of the best highlights in this book that stuck with me so far is the phenomenon of 10,000 hours, which was famously coined by Malcolm Gladwell in his award-winning book, Outliers.
Creative Curve has a chapter that elaborates further on the flaws of the 10,000 hours rule, which points out that to become great at what you do, you don’t need 10,000 hours, with some exceptions.
Let’s deep dive.
It’s about the purpose
Ever since Malcolm Gladwell coined the phrase “10,000 hours”, over 140,000 websites reference the phrase since then, according to Google Analytics
