Practice isn’t the thing you do once you’re good. It’s the thing that makes you good.
-Malcolm Gladwell, Outliers
On a friend's recommendation I read the third of Gladwell's 3 books (and in my opinion, the best) last month. It was one of the most interesting I've ever read.
In it he devotes an entire chapter to the idea that when a person spends 10,000 hours doing anything—be it learning the piano, programming computers, or playing hockey—they will become an expert in that particular field.
So a lot of practice will never make you perfect. But it will make you pretty fucking close.
dubs. out.
