{"id":171,"date":"2008-12-12T19:55:44","date_gmt":"2008-12-13T02:55:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thealpertstudio.com\/2008\/12\/12\/how-much-practice-makes-perfect\/"},"modified":"2008-12-12T19:56:41","modified_gmt":"2008-12-13T02:56:41","slug":"how-much-practice-makes-perfect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thealpertstudio.com\/blog\/2008\/12\/12\/how-much-practice-makes-perfect\/","title":{"rendered":"How much practice makes perfect?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/mpd\/permalink\/m3K73VOL0U85ZQ\"target=\"blank\">Malcolm Gladwell introduces Outliers: The Story of Success<\/a><\/p>\n<p>After hearing the raves, I decided to pick up a copy of Malcolm Gladwell&#8217;s latest book: <strong>Outliers: The Story of Success.<\/strong> It&#8217;s a fascinating work, that traces the the appearance of some of history&#8217;s most famous, wealthy and notable people. <\/p>\n<p>Early in the book, Mr. Gladwell makes reference to concert violinists, specifically those that have made it to the very top of the concert circle. They all share a common trait, which revolves around (yes, you guessed it) a significant amount of practice. If you want to know how much practice it will take to catch up with Joshua Bell, you&#8217;ll have to read the book! I heartily suggest you do, it&#8217;s a lot of fun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Malcolm Gladwell introduces Outliers: The Story of Success After hearing the raves, I decided to pick up a copy of Malcolm Gladwell&#8217;s latest book: Outliers: The Story of Success. It&#8217;s a fascinating work, that traces the the appearance of some of history&#8217;s most famous, wealthy and notable people. Early in the book, Mr. Gladwell makes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thealpertstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thealpertstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thealpertstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thealpertstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thealpertstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thealpertstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thealpertstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thealpertstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thealpertstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}