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Why the 10,000-Hour Rule is wrong

You’ve probably heard it: in order to attain true success in a given field, you need to spend roughly 10,000 hours practicing in that given field. If you’ve googled it, like I have, you will know that the principle comes from Malcolm Gladwell’s book „Outliers: The Story of Success”. This article isn’t about that book as a whole. It’s about the Rule as a meme.

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Recomandări de cursuri gratis :D

În continuare sunt complet îndrăgostită de Coursera. Mi-au plăcut diverse cursuri de la facultate, am înțeles mai multe decât mi-au plăcut, dar acum mă distrez făcând tot felul de cursuri interesante, bine explicate și mișto.

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Who is a killer on messenger (hint: it's either me or Hannibal)

Friend 1: holy flying fucking shit on a pogo stick!
Friend 1: :-O
Friend 1: *watching hannibal*
Friend 1: it’s a totem
Friend 1: made of people
Friend 1:  *everything* is people in this show
Me: so it would sound
Friend 1: each episode, the psycho of the week finds new and interesting ways to use his victims
Friend 1: and then hannibal pulls a copycat murder so he can re-supply his fridge
Friend 1: last week, the killer stuck a cello neck into the victim’s mouth and out his throat so he could play his vocal cords like strings
Friend 1: and before that, there was the guy who cut wings out of his victims’ backs to turn them into angels
Friend 1: the first ep was another cannibal
Friend 1: i’m at the point where i keep wondering what they’ll come up with next
Friend 1: and wondering if they’re getting their ideas from tumblr

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