Comments on: The 10,000-Hour Challenge http://turningpro.net/the-10000-hour-challenge The Blog of Ian Claudius Fri, 04 Sep 2009 01:39:25 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Alex http://turningpro.net/the-10000-hour-challenge/comment-page-1#comment-1431 Alex Mon, 12 Jan 2009 16:17:18 +0000 http://turningpro.net/?p=243#comment-1431 I still don't get how people took the conclusion that luck has anything to do with success in Outliers. If anything, the book showed that those people got lucky [I] because they didn't know what they were doing [/I]. I mean think about it: Gates and the Beatles were just doing what they loved. But if you can reduce success to hours upon hours of practice, well, the recipe is there, it's decoded, and now you know what it takes to be a winner. And count me in on the challenge. I still don’t get how people took the conclusion that luck has anything to do with success in Outliers. If anything, the book showed that those people got lucky [I] because they didn’t know what they were doing [/I].

I mean think about it: Gates and the Beatles were just doing what they loved. But if you can reduce success to hours upon hours of practice, well, the recipe is there, it’s decoded, and now you know what it takes to be a winner.

And count me in on the challenge.

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