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10,000 Hours to Become an Expert

The author of This Is Your Brain On Music (here) notes that people have found it takes 10,000 hours or 5 years at a 40 hour work week to become an expert at something.

Via, J-WalkBlog (here).

Comments 4

  1. Matt wrote:

    Or you could simply move to the Midwest. Everyone here is an expert on everything. Just ask ‘em.

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    Posted 04 Mar 2008 at 3:40 pm
  2. Boris Yankov wrote:

    Fortune had published several months ago on this subject.
    They found out that it takes 10 years of hard and intentional learning/training to become the best in any field.

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    Posted 04 Mar 2008 at 6:20 pm
  3. dude wrote:

    So that’s like a year in NYC years, right?
    The 80 hour plus work weeks here are like dog years.

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    Posted 05 Mar 2008 at 2:40 pm
  4. vanessa wrote:

    Good day!

    I would like to ask the ff:

    What is the best site for photo editing?

    Is it hard to edit great pictures?

    [Reply]

    Posted 06 Feb 2009 at 10:54 am

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