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A famous theory suggests that practising any skill for 10,000 hours is enough to make you an expert. No innate(天生的) talent? Not a problem. You just practise. But is it true?

One man who has decided to put this to the test is Dan McLaughlin, 34, a former commercial photographer from Portland, Oregon.

“This idea came in 2009. I was visiting my brother and we decided to play golf,” he says. “I had never really been on a golf course and went out and shot a 57, whish is horrible.”

Far from being discouraged by his obvious lack of any natural talent for golf, Dan and his brother started talking about what it would take to become a professional golfer. Dan soon decided he wanted to try.

“When I announced I was going to quit my job, my co-workers started bringing books in and I read Malcolm Gladwell’s Outliers, Geoff Colvin’s Talent is Overated and The TalentCode by Daniel Coyle,”he says.“these books all had this idea of 10,000 hours in them.”

The 10,000-hour concept can be traced back to a 1993 paper written by Anders Ericsson, a professor at the University of Colorado, called The Role of Deliberate Practice in theAcquistion of Expert Performance. It is Malcom Gladwell’s hugely popular book, Outliers,that is largely responsible for introducing “the 10,000-hour rule” to a mass audience.

It highlighted the work of a group of psychologists in Berlin, who had studied the practice habits of violin students in childhood, adolescence and adulthood.

All had begun playing at about five years of age with similar practice times. However, at age eight, practice times began to diverge(不同). By age 20, the elite(精英) performers had averaged more than 10,000 hours of practice each, while the less able performers had only done 4,000 hours of practice each.

The psychologists didn’t see any naturally gifted performers appear and this surprised them. If natural talent had played a role it wouldn’t have been unreasonable to expect gifted performers to appear aftyer, say, 5,000 hours.

Anders Ericsson concluded that “many characteristics once believed to reflect innate talent are actually the result of intense practice extended for a minimum of 10 year.”

If Dan’s plan goes well he could be mixing it with the likes of Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy in 2018. if not, he will just be a good golfer.

can be inferred from the passage that Dan McLaughlin ____________.

A. has been passionate about golf

B. likes challenging new things

C. is a failure as a photographer

D.  isn’t supported by his friends

first introduced the 10,000-hour concept to the public?

A. Geoff Colvin.    B. Daniel Coyle.   C. Anders Ericsson. D. Malcolm Gladwell.

made the Berlin psychologists surprised in their study?

A. That the elite performers practised so much.

B. That practice time varied greatly from person to person.

C. That the less able performers didn’t practise long enough.

D.  That no gifted performers appeared within a shorter period.

rding to this passage, we can draw a conclusion that _____________.

A. The sparrow near the school sings the primer.

B. Actions speak louder than words

C. Practice makes perfect

D.  A little learning is a dangerous thing

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