10,000 Hours of Play by OP Hero: Florence Nightingale
Florence Nightingale was a data nerd who used statistics to reform army hospitals, designed a profession that didn't…
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Articles on 10000 Hours of Play — from Yu-kai Chou, creator of the Octalysis Framework.
10,000 Hours of Play by OP Hero: Alan Turing
Alan Turing kept playing one game for life: figure out what a machine can actually compute, then build…
10,000 Hours of Play by OP Hero: Ludwig van Beethoven
How Ludwig van Beethoven composed his largest works after going deaf, decoded through Yu-kai Chou's 10,000 Hours of…
10,000 Hours of Play by OP Hero: Sergey Brin
Sergey Brin co-founded Google by putting the work before the structure. The 10,000 Hours of Play framework decodes…
10,000 Hours of Play by OP Hero: Ernest Shackleton
Ernest Shackleton failed to cross Antarctica. He then ran one of history's great survival operations and brought all…
10,000 Hours of Play by OP Hero: Jim Henson
How Jim Henson turned puppetry into a global creative empire, decoded through Yu-kai Chou's 10,000 Hours of Play…
10,000 Hours of Play by OP Hero: Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin gamified his own character with a 13-virtue scorecard, then ran the same playbook on a printing…
10,000 Hours of Play by OP Hero: Larry Page
How Larry Page turned a Stanford research project into Google, and what his 10x-thinking build teaches about chasing…
10,000 Hours of Play by OP Hero: Angela Merkel
A quantum chemist with no political background led Germany for 16 years. Angela Merkel's improbable build, seen through…