[Ilugc] Interview of Linus Torvalds; He Also Speaks Of Sad Situation Of India
- From: ssenthilanand@xxxxxxxxx (Senthil Anand)
- Date: Sun, 6 Nov 2011 00:49:04 +0530
On 5 November 2011 15:24, Girish Venkatachalam
<girishvenkatachalam at gmail.com> wrote:
On Sat, Nov 5, 2011 at 1:47 PM, Arun Khan <knura9 at gmail.com> wrote:
You won't get skills in 5 or 7 years. It takes more than 15 years.
I differ. ?A person with passion and the right mind set can achieve
enough expertise in a subject matter within 2-5 years.
You left out a 1 before this number. 12 to 15 years. ;)
http://norvig.com/21-days.html
In the essay Peter Norvig quotes studies showing that it takes "about
ten years to develop expertise in any of a wide variety of areas" and
speculates that deliberate practice of over 10000 hours (which works
out to ~2.75 hours per day over a 10 year period) is what is required.
Regards,
Senthil
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