George was a pirate, but he wasn’t a very good pirate.
Malcolm Gladwell says that if you spend ten thousand hours doing something, you’ll become an expert at it.
George thought that by spending ten thousand hours being a pirate, he’d become an expert at being a pirate.
But instead, by spending ten thousand hours of being a not very good pirate, he became an expert at being not a very good pirate.
George hunted down Malcolm Gladwell and confronted him.
Malcolm kicked George in the groin with an expert’s precision.
Apparently, Malcolm had spent ten thousand hours doing that.