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> But it boils down to the hours that kids put into their interests.

So you believe in the 10 000 hours empirical rule based on "outliers" with very little evidence to support it?

Gladwell used someone else's studies and came up with the 10k hours. I recommend you read the original authors' book: Peak: Secrets from the New Science of Expertise, from Anders Ericsson and Robert Pool. They say the 10k rule doesn't exist and explain what they meant, but it does indeed boil down to "deliberate practice".

And 10k hours rule is just catchy name. Almost only purpose is just to be catchy! This[1] episode of freakonomics explains it well.

[1] http://freakonomics.com/podcast/peak/

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