The 10,000 Hours Theory

The 10,000 hours theory that there's kind of no such thing as talent and it's only accumulated hours of deliberate practice didn't really hold anywhere. The best like junior athletes were not the best senior athletes according to a study by Frederick Oswald who looked at tons of studies in different fields. A German study also found that Nobel laureates progressed more slowly earlier in their career than their colleagues because they were more interdisciplinary early in their career so they advanced more slowly but ended up becoming Nobel laureates.