10,000 Hours of Play by OP Hero: Harriet Tubman
Harriet Tubman escaped Maryland in 1849 — then went back about 13 times. A 10K HP read on…
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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: Norman Borlaug
Norman Borlaug's 10,000 Hours of Play build: a 65-year quest from a Cresco, Iowa farm to wheat varieties…
10,000 Hours of Play by OP Hero: Plato
Plato's 50-year run after 399 BCE — Academy, Republic, three failed Syracuse trips, and the Laws — read…
10,000 Hours of Play by OP Hero: Bob Dylan
Bob Dylan's six decades of reinvention, from Greenwich Village to the Nobel Prize, read through the 10,000 Hours…
10,000 Hours of Play by OP Hero: Jackie Robinson
Jackie Robinson's keystone Skill was Guardian Restraint — pre-committed, time-bounded, abandoned the instant the contract expired. The 6-Step…
10,000 Hours of Play by OP Hero: Andrew Carnegie
Andrew Carnegie's life as an RPG: the bobbin boy who built America's steel age, then gave away $350M…
10,000 Hours of Play by OP Hero: Audrey Hepburn
Audrey Hepburn through the 10K HP lens: how a Hongerwinter survivor turned a film career into a launchpad…
10,000 Hours of Play by OP Hero: Akira Kurosawa
Akira Kurosawa played one game for sixty years. Run his career through the 10K HP 6-Step framework —…
10,000 Hours of Play by OP Hero: Greta Thunberg
How a 15-year-old's hand-painted sign became Fridays for Future. Greta Thunberg's 6-Step build: Attributes, Skills, Allies, Quests.