If you’re a relentlessly upbeat thinker, you may be enamored of the 10,000-hour rule, which holds that if you simply practice something regularly for a long enough time, you’ll eventually achieve ...

In this article, I examine what science tells us about effective practice and instruction. I explore whether the idiom ‘practice makes perfect’ stands up to scrutiny. This idiom has two fundamental ...

As we say goodbye to the Olympics, it’s a good time to reflect on how much work it takes to become among the best in the world. If you believe in the 10,000-hour rule — the premise that it takes ...