How many 10K hours do you have left?
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How many 10K hours do you have left?
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#2Somewhat relevant, "Teach Yourself Programming in 10 years" by Peter Norvig:
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#3A graph since no calculator was provided.
Zoom out a bit to get the right scale.
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#45 more achievements to unlock before game over
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#55 more achievements to unlock before game over
Clearly, we need to hack the underlying codebase to allows more time for achievements.
On a serious thought, if old people live longer, we have longer access to their knowledge and expertise. When old people die, we lost some their expertise forever. So if we cure cancer and other diseases, that would be money well spent.
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#65 more achievements to unlock before game over
Clearly, we need to hack the underlying codebase to allows more time for achievements. On a serious thought, if old people live longer, we have longer access to their knowledge and expertise. When old people die, we lost some their expertise forever. So if we cure cancer and other diseases, that would be money well spent.
On a serious thought, here's how to NOT lose elders' expertise forever: http://www.theamazings.com/
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#7How could anyone actually sustain such a rate of learning? Two hours every weekday, plus an additional sixteen hours every weekend for 48 weeks every year?
Life creeps up, and seeps into the cracks so tenuously occupied by free time. Mastering but a single skill is impressive.
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#8How could anyone actually sustain such a rate of learning? Two hours every weekday, plus an additional sixteen hours every weekend for 48 weeks every year? Life creeps up, and seeps into the cracks so tenuously occupied by free time. Mastering but a single skill is impressive.
2 hours a day is not something completely unachievable. Hell, I spent that time everyday watching some movie or just relaxing.
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#9Sadly, the problem is that the older you does not get the same out of 10k hours of deliberate practice than the younger you.
Let's take chess: 10k hours of deliberate practice in your teen years will make you a master level player (and possibly near GM caliber if you think Polgar experiment was not a fluke).
There are no known instances of someone starting to play chess after age of 30 and getting near GM. Conversely, I've known people who retired in their 40s and dedicated themselves to chess and could not achieve more than a 50-100 point gain.
I would love to be proven wrong, but I suspect the story is the same with piano, violin and programming.
Your 10k hours at age 40 will not get you near anywhere the same return than 10k hours at age 10-16.
I would love to see some references to people achieving mastery in some field past the age of 40 starting from scratch.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuroplasticity is supposed to show that it is possible to get good at a later age, but I am very skeptical.
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#10With the amount of hours i work now i can master 3 new things by the time i'm 30. That's incredibly exciting.