At the 34th Street subway station, there is a small boy who plays classical music on an electronic piano at breakneck speeds while his father stands at his side. It seems to match the pace of the trains to hear Mozart played five times faster than you've ever heard it. Whenever I see him, I think about Malcolm Gladwell's book
Outliers and how he determined that it takes 10,000 hours to reach truly expert levels at anything. The Beatles played for years in German bars to reach 10,000 hours. Bill Gates was playing with university computers while still in high school, reaching an expert level of 10,000 hours before most people his age. To reach 10,000 hours you need passion, focus, determination, and perhaps a father looking over your shoulder as you play classical music on the subway platform.
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