practice - delanceyplace

"The physiology of this process also requires extraordinary amounts of elapsed time - not just hours and hours of deliberate practice each day, Ericsson found, but also thousands of hours over the course of many years. Interestingly, a number of separate studies have turned up the same common number, concluding that truly outstanding skill in any domain is rarely achieved in less than ten thousand hours of practice over ten years' time (which comes to an average of three hours per day). From sublime pianists to unusually profound physicists, researchers have been very hard-pressed to find any examples of truly extraordinary performers in any field who reached the top of their game before that ten-thousand-hour mark."

http://delanceyplace.blogspot.com/2010/07/delanceyplacecom-72310-practice.html

http://www.delanceyplace.com

When web users cross the Gladwell 10,000-hour standard

"Derek Powazek has a piece that tries to bring the Malcolm Gladwell Outliers thesis — that it takes 10,000 hours of practice to master anything — and apply it to the explosion of content brought about by the Internet"

http://www.niemanlab.org/2010/06/when-web-users-cross-the-gladwell-10000-hour-standard