The 10,000-Hour Rule Isn’t Wrong. It’s Just Answering the Wrong Question.
Bach wrote over a thousand compositions. Most of them are forgotten. Edison held 1,093 patents, and the overwhelming majority went nowhere. Picasso produced an estimated 50,000 works across his lifetime — paintings, sketches, ceramics, prints — and the handful hanging in major museums represent a tiny fraction of everything he actually made. The popular story…