I love learning new things and have written about learning on this blog several times before. But I am also a fan of observing mastery. I seem to remember reading in Gladwell’s Outliers, that mastery requires at least 10,000 hours of doing something. This makes it unlikely that I will achieve mastery in most of the things I am doing outside my professional live. That doesn’t prevent me from deeply enjoying the effortlessness displayed by masters. Three very different recent examples come to m...

I love learning new things and have written about learning on this blog several times before. But I am also a fan of observing mastery. I seem to remember reading in Gladwell’s Outliers, that mastery requires at least 10,000 hours of doing something. This makes it unlikely that I will achieve mastery in most of the things I am doing outside my professional live. That doesn’t prevent me from deeply enjoying the effortlessness displayed by masters. Three very different recent examples come to m...