What Separates Elite Achievers From Average Performers?

A surprising finding from the research behind the so-called ‘10,000 hour rule’

Itzhak Perlman performs at the Barclays Center on February 28, 2013 in New York City. Photo: James Devaney/WireImage

In the 1990s, a trio of psychologists from the Universität der Künst in Berlin embarked on a quest to answer the question: What separates elite achievers from average performers? Their resulting research became the basis of the so-called…