10,000 Hours of Play by OP Hero: Winston Churchill
Winston Churchill told his mother he'd be Prime Minister in twenty years — and spent four decades preparing…
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10,000 Hours of Play by OP Hero: Michael Jordan
Cut from his high school varsity, Jordan turned the rejection into a 35-year ignition system. Here's his life…
10,000 Hours of Play by OP Hero: Shigeru Miyamoto
How Shigeru Miyamoto built a 50-year career on the discipline of subtraction — from the Sonobe forests of…
10,000 Hours of Play by OP Hero: Marcus Aurelius
The Roman emperor who ruled through plague, war, and betrayal — and wrote himself private Stoic notes that…
10,000 Hours of Play by OP Hero: Nikola Tesla
Nikola Tesla as an OP Hero — the six-step build behind AC, the Westinghouse alliance, Wardenclyffe's collapse, and…
Priming Effects: S-Tier Behavioral Designer’s Guide
If you have read a popular psychology book in the last fifteen years, you have probably been told…
10,000 Hours of Play by OP Hero: Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln's life-as-RPG run: less than a year of schooling, a string of lost elections, and an 1858…
10,000 Hours of Play by OP Hero: Serena Williams
Serena Williams's life-as-RPG run — 23 Grand Slams, the Career Golden Slam, Serena Ventures, and the Phoenix Rebirth…
10,000 Hours of Play by OP Hero: Martin Luther King Jr.
Martin Luther King Jr. as the cleanest example we have of moral leverage compounding over 13 years —…