[migrated to blacksky.co.uk] on Nostr: There's a commonly cited factoid that mastering a skill takes ten thousand hours. ...

There's a commonly cited factoid that mastering a skill takes ten thousand hours. Doing something for ten thousand hours won't make you good at it; if you don't know what you're doing, chances are you're just going to practice being bad.

Aside from that, the study from which this figure originates tried to determine how long it takes a naturally talented individual to become a violin virtuoso, it's not directly applicable to every person or every skill.