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The 10,000 Hour Rule
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Hwanseok Oh
Professor Aileen Gum
English 037A
13 July 2013
Reading Response The 10,000 hour rule by Malcolm Gladwell talks about Bill Joy and he has a very interesting life story. Bill Joy attends University of Michigan that only has time-sharing system for computers. He is able to develop the system and prepare himself for the computer revolution when it is not even ready to arise. In section 2 of this book, “In fact, researchers have settled on what they believe is the magic number for true expertise: ten thousand hours.” Bill Joy spends about 10,000 hours for the computer programs and people still use those programs in these days. In this story, Gladwell tell us that Joy is known as “Most Studious Student” back in high school. The definition of studious is hard-working and disposes. Bill
Joy does not have an innate talent, but he is very dedicating to his works. He work very hard to improve that computer programming and very passionate about his work. Also, the computer center is open for 24 hours and this has nothing to do with
Bill Joy’s innate ability. Bill Joy is just hard worker and that’s what makes him a genius. Gladwell is definitely not suggesting Blii Joy’s success because of his innate ability. He is actually trying to tell the reader about Bill Joy’s dedication of his work.
“Practice isn’t the thing you do once you’re good. It’s the thing you do that makes you good,” states in section 2 from this story. Bill Joy never stops to develop the
Oh 2 computer programs. Therefore, 10,000 hours are the amount of practice time for a person to become best at something or successful. Not everyone can do that because it is a very long time and a person need a lot of patience to reach that

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