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That viral "just practice 10,000 hours" clip hit 4 million views and the comments are a mess
I watched a 90 second clip where a guy says talent is fake and 10k hours is all you need, and the top comment has 12k likes agreeing with him. It bugs me because the hours thing came from a study of violinists at a music school in Berlin, not some universal law, but people in the replies are treating it like gospel. Does anyone have a good short way to push back on this without writing a whole essay in the comments?
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cole_murphy1d ago
Did you also notice how the study itself said the hours varied a ton between the best players? The researcher, Ericsson, keeps saying his work gets twisted into this "10,000 hours and you're golden" thing when he never claimed that. The violinists at that Berlin school still needed good teachers and started young, and even then some needed way more hours than others to hit the same level. So yeah, talent being "fake" is a stretch too, since some folks just pick stuff up faster and that's reality. Short pushback idea: "The 10k thing came from one study of violinists, not a law of nature, and the guy who wrote it says people misquote him.
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