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Does 10,000 hours of practice enable you to become an expert at something?

by feroz1 on 2/3/15, 8:37 PM with 3 comments

  • by angersock on 2/3/15, 8:56 PM

    The thing required to be a professional at something--the only thing required--is to convince somebody to pay you for your product or work. Whether you're actually any good at it is a different matter entirely, and somewhat only tangentially related getting paid.