In his 2008 book Outliers, journalist Malcolm Gladwell popularized what has become known as the 10,000 hour rule. The rule—based on a 1993 study of young violinists and pianists—says that to reach ...

Will 10,000 hours of practice make you an expert at anything? That's the uplifting message of a slew of recent books, but, sadly, it's not quite true. For one thing, how long it takes to get good at ...

In his book Outliers, Malcolm Gladwell made an interesting observation: that people who rose above the rest and achieved incredible success in their respective endeavors all have one thing in common: ...