10,000 Hours of Play by OP Hero: Miyamoto Musashi
How Miyamoto Musashi went from teenage duelist to author of The Book of Five Rings, told as a…
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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: Nicolaus Copernicus
How Nicolaus Copernicus, a church canon in Frombork, spent three decades on De revolutionibus, told as a 10,000…
10,000 Hours of Play by OP Hero: Rabindranath Tagore
Rabindranath Tagore's life as a 10K HP build: the Game, Attributes, Roles, Skills, Allies and Quests behind the…
10,000 Hours of Play by OP Hero: Michel de Montaigne
How Michel de Montaigne retired to a tower at 38, wrote the Essais and still became mayor of…
10,000 Hours of Play by OP Hero: Elizabeth I
How Elizabeth I turned a stay in the Tower of London into a 44-year reign, told as a…
10,000 Hours of Play by OP Hero: Satoru Iwata
How Satoru Iwata kept programming from HAL's debt crisis to the Nintendo presidency, told as a 10,000 Hours…
10,000 Hours of Play by OP Hero: Hans Christian Andersen
How Hans Christian Andersen turned a failed stage career into the fairy tales the world still reads, told…
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…