In 10,000 Hours, Malcolm Gladwell uses natural talent and practice to convey that hard work is needed to master a skill. Throughout the passage Gladwell uses examples of students at Berlin’s elite Academy of Music. The study done by psychologist K. Anders Ericsson and two colleagues had picked three types of students, star students who are potential to become world-class violin soloist, judged to be merely “good,” and those unlikely to ever play professionally but intend to be public school system teachers. All three were asked same question, “Over the course of your entire career, ever since you picked up the violin, how many hours have you practiced?” and had shown the difference in practice each group had. First group had 10,000 hours, second