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Discussion on: Front-end web development is not what you think it is.

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Steven Myers

It has been said that in order to master a new skill, you’ll need to put in at least 10,000 hours of work.

Yes, but it depends on the quality of work. One has to spend those 10k hours consistently striving to better oneself. If those 10k hours are spent blindly copying patterns in the existing codebase or copy+past from StackOverflow, then expertise should not be expected.

he one that showed the top tier had practiced more than 10,000 hours — Ericsson found the experts did so with full concentration on improving a particular aspect of their performance that a master teacher identified.

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