10,000 Hours of Play by OP Hero: Jack Ma
Rejected from ~30 jobs and twice failed by the college exam, Jack Ma built Alibaba anyway. His 10,000…
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10000 Hours of Play
Articles on 10000 Hours of Play — from Yu-kai Chou, creator of the Octalysis Framework.
10,000 Hours of Play by OP Hero: Temple Grandin
Temple Grandin's autistic, picture-thinking mind was called a defect. It became the exact instrument that redesigned how an…
10,000 Hours of Play by OP Hero: Magic Johnson
Magic Johnson won five NBA titles by making everyone around him better, then rebuilt his life after an…
10,000 Hours of Play by OP Hero: Johannes Kepler
How Johannes Kepler turned an 8-arcminute error and someone else's dataset into the three laws of planetary motion,…
10,000 Hours of Play by OP Hero: Miles Davis
Miles Davis reinvented jazz four times by retiring every sound he perfected. His life through the 10,000 Hours…
10,000 Hours of Play by OP Hero: Susan B. Anthony
Susan B. Anthony spent six decades turning abstract equality into constitutional law. Her 10,000 Hours of Play character…
10,000 Hours of Play by OP Hero: John D. Rockefeller
How John D. Rockefeller built Standard Oil, then gave away $540M with the same systematic mind — his…
10,000 Hours of Play by OP Hero: Alexander Fleming
How Alexander Fleming, the man who discovered penicillin, turned world-class observation and honest self-knowledge into the first antibiotic…
10,000 Hours of Play by OP Hero: Arthur Ashe
How Arthur Ashe turned a segregated childhood and a legendary 1975 Wimbledon upset into three Grand Slam titles…