Can anyone master a skill in 10,000 hours of practice? Hey there, everyone. I’m gonna lay out some opinions about a book that I’m reading for the second time this quarantine. The book is “Outliers” by Malcolm Gladwell. Well, the big question that I wonder here about what the book states is: Can anyone master a skill in 10,000 hours of practice? To resume the book, the author made a lot of research about people who have succeeded in certain fields and how they needed at least 10,000 hours to get considered as geniuses. He assures that if you wanna learn something as well as you expect or as well as the character you admire is, you need that amount of hours to achieve it. But, I think that it depends on other and specific factors, which could take less hours, more hours or just the time you need. In fact, some scientists debunk the myth of 10,000 hours of practice according to a study that they made. So, to sum up this, there are factors such as personality, the age you started, intelligence, or something else entirely. For example, I know people who started to play the ukelele a day at 7AM. And practically in 20 hours without getting some rest, they learned the basic chords, and actually they learned how to play a song. From being blank, they moved forward and learned to do something completely new in a short period of time. I remember in 2015 when I decided to stop drawing cartoons and started to draw realistic drawings instead. I remember that day, I was in my room like 18-20 hours straight until I finished. I wanted to challenge myself. I was enthusiastic and really willing to figure out if I was able to do something like that. Like something in a higher level, you know. So, the rest is history, but I keep improving and working on my hours of proficiency. Thanks for reading and correcting!!!