10,000 Hours

Stanford's Garrett Werner (Nicolet '06) gets a fair amount of praise in Canyon Ceman's article about the 2010 NCAA national champions. The article's author refers often to Malcolm Gladwell's concept that "true excellence in any endeavor requires 10,000 hours of effort to achieve." Of course, if you also want to boast a 3.9+ GPA in engineering from Stanford, you might need to ratchet those hours up a little more. Well done and congrats again.