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In the early 1990’s, psychologist K. Anders Ericsson at Berlin’s Academy of Music. He and two colleagues broke down the point of separation between the most spectacular violinists in the world, and those who weren’t. It turns out that, by the age of eight, the really good musicians started practicing more, from six hours a week at age 9 up to more than 30 hours a week by age 20. By that time, the elite performers had already logged more than 10 thousand hours of practice. Those who were merely g… Continue