A few hundred hours of work on something will get you to be in the top 1% of whatever field you want to be in. So chess is a great example. The violinists who've only put in 4,000 hours, they were like the third chair of a symphony or an orchestra, not the first chair. But okay, they're better than everyone else except the best in the world. And they didn't put in 10,000 hours.

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