Investigating the 10,000 hour rule, I found some push-back to it. After reading it all over, I decided that the rule means practice, practice, practice and can be constructively augmented by some advice from other sources.
The unspoken, yet intuitively obvious idea of good quality practice is at the root of the 10,000 hour rule. It seems that in the 10,000 hours there will be enough "good" practice to make the desired progress. So it stands to reason if you get a concentrated amount of good quality practice, you can shorten the cycle of becoming expert.
Increasing the entirety of the mental content of practice creates quality. We have six centers of influence in our active life: intellectual, emotional, moving, social, sexual, and instinctive. As we practice to acquire a skill all of these will come into play at some point and the more deeply each is involved the more expert one will become. This requires understanding that more than rote practice of the skill being acquired is necessary.
This from Tim Ferriss (one can use an internet search to find him):
1. Create a feedback loop
2. Deliberate practice
Mistake? Learn from it and then--
Redo it properly
3. Become a teacher
(Average retention rates of the Learning Pyramid:
PASSIVE: Lecture-5%, Reading 10%, Audio-visual 20%, Demonstration 30%,
PARTICIPATORY: Group discussion 50%, Practice 75%, Teaching others 90%.)
"If you can't explain it to a six year old you don't understand it yourself."
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