[Hegewisch Dupa]

The musicians who have been with Mellencamp for years were excellent.

There is so much to be said for that. A good band that plays together for a while can be such a wonderful thing. Our bosses had us read some book to try to make us all less lame, and in it they talked about the 10,000 Hour Rule and how you more or less usually have to put in about that much time to be good at something. They gave a lot of examples, but the one that stood out to me was all the time the Beatles put in playing in brothels in Germany. Playing 8 hours a day, for six or sometimes seven days a week, month after month went a long way to both make them great musicians but also to gel together as a band.

So I guess what we learned is Yoko is -10,000 Hours

[SoothingDave]

they talked about the 10,000 Hour Rule and how you more or less usually have to put in about that much time to be good at something.

Tell that to my first girlfriend. ;-)

[secret garden]

Andy York(guitar), Dane Clark(percussion), Troye Kinnett(keyboards incl.accordian, harmonica), and John E.Gee(upright bass) made up the band and they were absolutely solid. They been playing with John for 8-17 years and it showed. People complained about the Milli Vanilli thing, but no one ruined music more than Yoko.

[hobbes1]

Gladwell was full of $h!t..

When confronted with sports(think Basketball players turned TE’s) he retreated to COGNITIVE pursuits, using...NEUROSURGEONS as his example, saying in cognitive pursuits there are no ‘naturals’

Thats a straw man.

Think about the fields of computer science...cognitive, lots of naturals.

And FWIW...no one performs Neurosurgery for 10,000 hours before cutting someone open.