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Comment by althea_tx

Oh please. All of these time estimates, from 24 hours to ten years to 10,000 hours are completely bogus.

The “24 hours” figure is marketing copy designed to unify and differentiate a brand of technical manuals.

The person who coined the 10,000 hours rule (Anders Ericsson) rejects it as an oversimplification of an arbitrary number, noting that half of the violinists in his study fell short of that number. The ten years figure is derived from this flawed rule.

The linked article is well-written, but the comments are giving “kids these days” insecurity and mid-life crisis.

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