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Researcher Behind ‘10,000-Hour Rule’ Says Good Teaching Matters, Not Just Practice

From This Week with EdSurge · Hosted by Ira Apfel

May 5, 2020·32:29

Episode summary

In this episode of This Week with EdSurge: You've probably heard of the "10,000-hour rule" popularized by author Malcolm Gladwell, which says that it takes that much practice to gain mastery of a complex subject area. The professor who Gladwell cites as the basis of that rule, Anders Ericsson, says things are a bit more complicated than the popular author explained.

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You've probably heard of the "10,000-hour rule" popularized by author Malcolm Gladwell, which says that it takes that much practice to gain mastery of a complex subject area. The professor who Gladwell cites as the basis of that rule, Anders Ericsson, says things are a bit more complicated than the popular author explained.