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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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  1. Tommy Wood

    Associate professor of pediatrics and neuroscience at the…

    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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