{"id":119,"date":"2009-04-02T00:34:06","date_gmt":"2009-04-02T07:34:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pertuset.net\/openbook\/?p=119"},"modified":"2013-11-11T20:00:54","modified_gmt":"2013-11-12T03:00:54","slug":"10000-hours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pertuset.net\/openbook\/2009\/04\/02\/10000-hours\/","title":{"rendered":"10,000 hours"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width:90px;\" class=\"captionLeft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.indiebound.org\/aff\/pertuset3?product=0316017922\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.booksense.com\/images\/books\/923\/017\/FC9780316017923.JPG\" alt=\"Outliers\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p> Malcolm Gladwell can tell a tale. Peter Coclanis at Open Letters Monthly admits as much but <a href=\"http:\/\/openlettersmonthly.com\/issue\/book-review-outliers-malcolm-gladwell\/\">takes Gladwell to task<\/a> for passing storytelling off as science. Best bit: &#8220;data is not the plural of anecdote.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Whether scientifically sound or not, I found one of Gladwell&#8217;s assertions especially appealing. He contends that it takes 10,000 hours of practice to become truly expert. Since reading this, I&#8217;ve adjusted how I think of my vocation. Instead of seeking work at which I am innately proficient, I&#8217;ve decided that my &#8220;calling&#8221; must be something I&#8217;d be eager to practice 20 hours a week for the next 10 years in order to become so. Happily, I&#8217;m already at it. <\/p>\n<p>On what are you spending 10,000 hours?<\/p>\n<p>Related post:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pertuset.net\/openbook\/2007\/09\/12\/a-meaningful-life\/\">a meaningful life<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Malcolm Gladwell can tell a tale. Peter Coclanis at Open Letters Monthly admits as much but takes Gladwell to task for passing storytelling off as science. Best bit: &#8220;data is not the plural of anecdote.&#8221; Whether scientifically sound or not, I found one of Gladwell&#8217;s assertions especially appealing. He contends that it takes 10,000 hours [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[28],"class_list":["post-119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vocation","tag-outliers-the-story-of-success"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pertuset.net\/openbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pertuset.net\/openbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pertuset.net\/openbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pertuset.net\/openbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pertuset.net\/openbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119"}],"version-history":[{"count":27,"href":"https:\/\/www.pertuset.net\/openbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":585,"href":"https:\/\/www.pertuset.net\/openbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119\/revisions\/585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pertuset.net\/openbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pertuset.net\/openbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pertuset.net\/openbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}