Yet with a few exceptions such as gymnastics, where skill acquisition needs to be developed before maturity, and chess, where developing early pattern recognition is vital, the science does not back that up. Their message is simple and seductive: to succeed someone needs 10,000 hours of deliberate practice in an activity, which means it is best to start early. Books such as Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell and Bounce by Matthew Syed have reinforced this idea by propagating the 10,000-hour rule for success – something Gladwell describes as the “magic number of greatness”.
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