Simeon
Stylites sat on a pole for more than 30 years.
Everybody
said he was a saint, but he shrugged.
“After
10, 000 hours, you get very good at it,” he said.
NUMBERS terrify some people. Others worship them as
icons. Many of us just get tricked by them.
A number con-game which has been around
for a while is that it takes an author 10,000 hours to become highly
proficient at the occupation.
