10,000 Hours of Play by OP Hero: Ibn Sina (Avicenna)
How Ibn Sina (Avicenna) turned forty failed reads, a royal library, and years of exile into the Canon…
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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: Baruch Spinoza
Spinoza lost his community at 23 and built the Ethics on a lens-grinder's income. His full OP Hero…
10,000 Hours of Play by OP Hero: Ang Lee
Ang Lee spent six unemployed years writing scripts, then won two Best Director Oscars. His full OP Hero…
10,000 Hours of Play by OP Hero: George Eastman
In 1878, a twenty-four-year-old bank clerk in Rochester, New York started planning a photography trip and ran straight…
10,000 Hours of Play by OP Hero: Václav Havel
In January 1989, Czechoslovak police arrested a banned playwright at a street demonstration in Prague and a court…
10,000 Hours of Play by OP Hero: Ibn Battuta
On June 14, 1325, a 21-year-old law student rode out of Tangier alone, headed for Mecca. The pilgrimage…
10,000 Hours of Play by OP Hero: Santiago Ramón y Cajal
In 1889, a little-known Spanish professor packed his microscope and a stack of glass slides and traveled to…
10,000 Hours of Play by OP Hero: Carl Jung
Carl Jung treated his own unconscious as the ultimate unexplored map. Here is his full OP Hero build:…
10,000 Hours of Play by OP Hero: Martina Navratilova
She defected at 18, was mocked as unfit, then built Team Navratilova and an 86–1 season. Martina Navratilova's…