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>> I read somewhere (don't remember which book now) that you need 10000
>> hours
>> of experience in something to become an expert. Apparently if you
>> research
>> many "experts" (including famous sports people, business men, artists
>> etc),
>> almost all have surpassed the magic 10K hour mark.
>
> Outliers, by Malcolm Gladwell. Good book, very interesting, especially the
> Bill
> Gates example.
Yes that's the one, I'm terrible at remembering which book was about which
subject!
Anyway, it really made me realise that it's no good just being in the right
place at the right time, you need to have put in a huge amount of work *and*
then be in the right place at the right time.
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