10,000 Hours of Play by OP Hero: Akira Kurosawa
Akira Kurosawa played one game for sixty years. Run his career through the 10K HP 6-Step framework —…
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10,000 Hours of Play by OP Hero: Greta Thunberg
How a 15-year-old's hand-painted sign became Fridays for Future. Greta Thunberg's 6-Step build: Attributes, Skills, Allies, Quests.
10,000 Hours of Play by OP Hero: Warren Buffett
How Warren Buffett ran the same capital-allocation game for 84 years, read through Yu-kai Chou's 10K HP framework:…
10,000 Hours of Play by OP Hero: Eleanor Roosevelt
Eleanor Roosevelt rebuilt every platform she was handed. From the 1933 women-only press conferences to the 1948 Universal…
10,000 Hours of Play by OP Hero: Maria Montessori
Maria Montessori was a physician for 11 years before she opened a single classroom, then designed a system…
10,000 Hours of Play by OP Hero: John Wooden
The teacher who waited 14 years for UCLA's first title, then won 10 in 12 seasons. John Wooden's…
10,000 Hours of Play by OP Hero: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
The original 10,000-hours prodigy. How Mozart turned 35 years into the most concentrated composer-run in history, by Yu-kai…