10,000 hours of repetition won't make you an expert

Decades of research on top performers found that raw hours barely matter. What matters is deliberate practice: working just beyond your ability, with immediate feedback, on your specific weaknesses. Most people plateau because they practise what they're already good at.

— Anders Ericsson & Robert Pool, Peak: Secrets from the New Science of Expertise — 2016
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