How to learn something new

A ten step technique for learning stuff

Winning SCRABBLE and the Nature of Expertise

Study challenges the dogma that anyone can become anything they want to become — for example the best SCRABBLE player in the world — with enough hard work. In Outliers Malcolm Gladwell repeated evokes the "10,000-Hour Rule", claiming that the key to success in any field is practicing a specific task for a total of around 10,000 hours.