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The Great Antidote

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The 10,000 Hour Rule

There's something about humans doing things that we care about so much because it is an extension of us no matter who it is. I'm still uh pretty immature but well I set the bar low by with myself so you know so it's not that hard to be more mature than I was at the time, he says. The 10,000 hours rule started with work done by a man named K. Anders Erickson and his colleagues when they studied 30 violinists in 1993. There are few important problems here um and feel free to interrupt me if I go on too long about this but obviously like years of my life have been obsessed with this.

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