Common misconceptions
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Popular culture is full of numbers that sound believable, but which are actually false. You’ve probably heard these repeated all over the place. Perhaps you’ve even believed some of them - after all, they tend to have some intuitive plausibility. For example:
10,000 hours of practice are required to achieve world-class performance in anything
Humans need 8 hours of sleep per night
It takes 21 days to form a habit
We should walk 10,000 steps per day
This week, we’re diving into these four numbers. Read on to learn what the truth behind these popular falsehoods really is.
https://www.clearerthinking.org/post/four-widely-believed-numbers-which-are-actually-false
There's a quiz you can take. It asks for your email at the end to see the results, but you can just hit enter without the email and it will display them.
https://programs.clearerthinking.org/common_misconceptions.html
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Ooh, thanks for posting this! I’ll take a look.
Because I’m an “adult piano player,” when I tell people I started piano as an adult, a lot of times they will mention that 10,000 hour rule and something along the lines of “ I always wanted to play the piano but it’s too late for me because I’ll never get to 10,000 hours.”
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The quiz was fun! I got 23 out of 30 correct, not bad I guess.
