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The 10,000-hour rule misreports its own source: 10,000 hours was how much expert violinists had practised by the age of twenty, and they were not experts yet.
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- Tommy Wood Associate professor at the University of Washington
The simple answer is what the study showed was that 10,000 hours was the average amount of time that an expert violinist had spent practicing by the time they reached 20 years old. That's what the study showed. They weren't even experts by that point.
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