10,000 Hours of Play by OP Hero: Baruch Spinoza
Spinoza lost his community at 23 and built the Ethics on a lens-grinder's income. His full OP Hero…
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10,000 Hours of Play by OP Hero: Ang Lee
Ang Lee spent six unemployed years writing scripts, then won two Best Director Oscars. His full OP Hero…
10,000 Hours of Play by OP Hero: George Eastman
In 1878, a twenty-four-year-old bank clerk in Rochester, New York started planning a photography trip and ran straight…
10,000 Hours of Play by OP Hero: Václav Havel
In January 1989, Czechoslovak police arrested a banned playwright at a street demonstration in Prague and a court…
10,000 Hours of Play by OP Hero: Ibn Battuta
On June 14, 1325, a 21-year-old law student rode out of Tangier alone, headed for Mecca. The pilgrimage…
10,000 Hours of Play by OP Hero: Santiago Ramón y Cajal
In 1889, a little-known Spanish professor packed his microscope and a stack of glass slides and traveled to…
10,000 Hours of Play by OP Hero: Gabriel García Márquez
In August 1966, a writer and his wife stood at a post office counter holding the manuscript of…