The 10,000-hour Rule

Excerpt from <<Outliers>> Chapter 2

Just look at the stream of Opportunitires that came Bill Joy ' s.

Because He happened to go-a farsighted school like the University of Michigan, he is able to practice on a Time-sharin G system instead of with punch cards;

Because the Michigan system happened to has a bug in it, he could program all he wanted;

Because the university is willing to spend the money to keep the computer Center open hours, he could stay up all nigh T

And because he is able to put in so many hours, by the time he happened to being presented with the opportunity to rewrite U NIX, he is up to the task.

Bill Joy was brilliant. He wanted to learn. That is a big part of it.

But before he could become a expert, someone had to give him the opportunity-learn how to is an expert.

The 10,000-hour Rule