What it actually takes to reach genius-level excellence

[noemz]

This is an excellent article about focused, quality practice and how skills become automatic and plateau if you don't keep pushing to learn more.

Debunking the Myth of the 10,000-Hours Rule: What It Actually Takes to Reach Genius-Level Excellence.

[Marina]

Interesting article. I certainly hope it doesn't take 10,000 hours of writing to get good at it.

Unless I can count all the hours of procrastination as well, I'm screwed.

[Jaime]

I missed this when it first went up but it explains a lot. What the article says is obvious and self-evident to me, but illustrates that it's NOT self-evident and obvious to many, which explains the depressing level of mediocrity we get in such a large portion of the population all the time. For example, I recently heard that in any given field, 15% are excellent, 15% are horrible, and the other 70% are somewhere in between. That fits with my personal observations, and this article explains that 70.