“The emerging picture from such studies is that ten thousand hours of practice is required to achieve the level of mastery associated with being a world-class expert - in anything. In study after study, of composers, basketball players, fiction writers, ice skaters, concert pianists, chess players, master criminals, and what have you, this number comes up again and again…no one has yet found a case in which true world-class expertise was accomplished in less time. It seems that it takes the brain this long to assimilate all that it needs to know to achieve true mastery.”
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Daniel Levitin
Daniel J. Levitin is a neuroscientist born on December 27, 1957. He is known for his research in music psychology and cognitive neuroscience, contributing significantly to our understanding of how music affects the brain and how the brain processes musical information. more
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