How Do You Get to Carnegie Hall?

Malcolm Gladwell claimed that a person can master a skill with 10,000 hours of practice.

Ten thousand hours to complete mastery?

Practice is not alchemy

Although the fact is

I get better with practice

It won’t make a Shakespeare of me. 

Other studies conclude that talent makes a big difference.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/15/science/which-matters-more-talent-or-practice.html?module=Search&mabReward=relbias%3Ar%2C%7B%221%22%3A%22RI%3A7%22%7D

Some say practice is eighty per cent

Others say it is talent

When they are combined

With passion, you’ll find

Then the results are transcendent.

Practice and talent have their part

Just practicing won’t make you Mozart

He probably practiced all day

Considered it play

And had an awesome talent to start.