I like Gladwell's book...people get crotchety about it...but Gladwell's take is not so much "Do this and be great" it's more "Here's what some people who are great at stuff have in common."
The 10,000 hours thing is an approximation, obviously, and it's not just putting in 10,000 hours--the commonality in the examples in "Outliers" is that the 10,000 hours is achieved by a relatively young age, when the brain is still in sponge mode.
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