On 5 November 2011 15:24, Girish Venkatachalam <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, Nov 5, 2011 at 1:47 PM, Arun Khan <[email protected]> wrote:
>> >>> You won't get skills in 5 or 7 years. It takes more than 15 years. >> >> I differ. A person with passion and the right mind set can achieve >> enough expertise in a subject matter within 2-5 years. >> > > You left out a 1 before this number. 12 to 15 years. ;) > http://norvig.com/21-days.html In the essay Peter Norvig quotes studies showing that it takes "about ten years to develop expertise in any of a wide variety of areas" and speculates that deliberate practice of over 10000 hours (which works out to ~2.75 hours per day over a 10 year period) is what is required. Regards, Senthil _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
