Mind over Computer 37
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Outliers
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The Talent Code
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Mind over Computer 37
Gy Sa bis :
One Laptop per Child
adults — the adults have never even seen a computer before. Instead,
they must rely entirely on their innate learning ability. At this point, the
experiment has only just started; I will put details on my website as the
experiment progresses.
The 10,000 Hour Club
Learning by experience takes
humans quite a bit of time. Anders
Ericsson, Professor of Psychology
at Florida State University, studied
musicians in the early 1990s and
found they had accumulated a
huge number of practice hours
by the time they became experts.
His research was popularized by
Malcolm Gladwell, in the book
Outliers, and by Daniel Coyle
in The Talent Code. The idea is
that humans need around ten
thousand hours of practice to
become proficient at a skill. The
more skilled players seem to have a
simply accumulated even more Dan McLaughlin
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