malcolm gladwell came up with the 10 000 hour rule.
malcolm gladwell came up with the 10 000 hour rule.
who came up with the 10 000 hour rule?
malcolm gladwell
intended for a lay audience, "peak" is an expository book on deliberate practice, a term coined by ericsson to refer to the specific learning method used by experts to achieve superior performance in their fields, and mental representations. the book was written partly as a response to the misrepresented but increasingly commonplace idea of the "10,000-hour rule," popularized by malcolm gladwell in his 2008 book "outliers" and which gladwell had based on ericsson's own research. in this regard, ericsson also published an excerpt from this book in "salon" titled "malcolm gladwell got us wrong: our research was key to the 10,000-hour rule, but here’s what got oversimplified".
peak: secrets from the new science of expertise
a common theme that appears throughout "outliers" is the "10,000-hour rule", based on a study by anders ericsson. gladwell claims that greatness requires enormous time, using the source of the beatles' musical talents and gates' computer savvy as examples. the beatles performed live in hamburg, germany over 1,200 times from 1960 to 1964, amassing more than 10,000 hours of playing time, therefore meeting the 10,000-hour rule. gladwell asserts that all of the time the beatles spent performing shaped their talent, and quotes a beatles' biographer, philip norman, as claiming "so by the time they returned to england from hamburg, germany, 'they sounded like no one else. it was the making of them.'" gates met the 10,000-hour rule when he gained access to a high school computer in 1968 at the age of 13, and spent 10,000 hours programming on it.
outliers (book)