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The "Malcolm Gladwell 10,000 Hour rule" Rule:

In any discussion about mastery, people who have never read Outliers will attribute Gladwell with the idea of the 10,000 Hour Rule, take it out of context, and argue with it as if it were the main point of the book, or as if it was presented as a hard and fast rule.




The truth is that the book was not very good and didn't really have much of a point.


Which, rather ironically, didn't make it an outlier of the pop psych book genre.




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