If you're doing deliberate practice to improve performance, rather than just playing. I guess.
How many hours a week do you practice a skill that's unrelated to your education or career -- for example drawing, dancing, yoga, playing a musical instrument, meditation, marksmanship, or jujitsu?
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If it's actually practiced as a skill rather than just kinda done in a quotidian way.
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Poss follow-up q's for the ~ 20% of slackers might include, which of us badly want to invest the time needed to learn a certain skill but still hvn't done so (for whatever reason), vs which of us are not sufficiently passionate abt the skill to warrant sacrificing to acquire it?
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Your sample is going to over-index for lots of time spent on a extra-curriculars because you’re a popular science writer. I believe there are too few polymaths compared to our potential. Society only admires people who are great at one discipline
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>10, seriously
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Damn, this is a great question.
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It is!
If we could encourage everyone in the second category to move into the third, I think we’d get our sane-society back! 
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Used to grind for hours a day on guitar, before responsibilities and before the internet became a real thing
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A few months ago I started painting for two hours every night and it’s been really fulfilling
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