On Sun, 17 Jul 2016 13:10:53 -0700, Jeff Liebermann wrote:

10K hrs is about 5 years of total immersion. I've found this to be true
for most everything I've tried, except my crappy piano playing. Well
over 10K hrs of practice does not compensate for a fundamental lack of
talent.

Tell me about it! Having a natural gift for such activities makes a
massive difference.
BTW and FWIW, there's a very interesting discourse on the correct
approach to troubleshooting in Robert Persig's Zen and the Art of
Motorcycle Maintenance. And it's not restricted merely to motorcycles,
either:

https://www.amazon.com/Zen-Art-Motor...nance-Inquiry/
dp/0060589469/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1468793289&sr=8-1&keywords=zen+and
+the+art+of