10,000 Hours of Play by OP Hero: Ralph Lauren
A Bronx kid who couldn't sketch built one of the world's great lifestyle empires. Ralph Lauren's life decoded…
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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: Novak Djokovic
A kid who practiced in Belgrade bomb craters became the winningest man in tennis. Novak Djokovic's build, run…
10,000 Hours of Play by OP Hero: Dmitri Mendeleev
Dmitri Mendeleev left blank squares in his periodic table and bet his reputation on what belonged there. Here…
10,000 Hours of Play by OP Hero: Salvador Dalí
Salvador Dalí fused Old Master precision with the logic of dreams and marketed himself like a circus. His…
10,000 Hours of Play by OP Hero: Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk saved an empire at Gallipoli, then replaced it with a republic. His OP Hero run…
10,000 Hours of Play by OP Hero: Friedrich Nietzsche
Friedrich Nietzsche won a professorship at 24, then wrote his greatest work broke and unread. His 6-Step OP…
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…
10,000 Hours of Play by OP Hero: Georgia O’Keeffe
Georgia O'Keeffe spent seven decades protecting her right to paint what she saw, her way. Here is her…
10,000 Hours of Play by OP Hero: Immanuel Kant
Immanuel Kant published his masterpiece at 57 after a near-silent decade. Here's his run through the 6-Step 10,000…