Guitar God Status in Just 10,000 Hours

​Practice makes perfect, and apparently, 10,000 hours is the magic number. That's how long it takes to be an expert in any given field. At least that's Malcolm Gladwell's claim in Outliers, a book about how there is more to people's success than meets the eye. It's not just talent that makes people successful; it is hard work and determination. Mr. Gladwell provided a few examples, including the Beatles long residency at a club in Hamburg, Germany, playing every night for over a year, along with the amount of time Bill Gates put into his programming skills growing up. The claim was that both were successful due to the long hours, not just raw talent.

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