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…
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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: 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: Barbara McClintock
How geneticist Barbara McClintock discovered 'jumping genes,' endured 30 years of doubt, and won an unshared Nobel at…
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…
10,000 Hours of Play by OP Hero: Fyodor Dostoevsky
A mock execution, Siberian prison, and the novels that came after: Fyodor Dostoevsky's life run through the 10K…