NY Times article suggests that intelligence overrides work ethic

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The Beatles as a group may not have had 10,000 hrs if you are including the time in Hamburg. They had a different drummer then. I saw Ringo in a performance without the other Beatles a few years ago, not as a drummer, and he was excellent.

This cuts against the 10,000 hours theory, because the Beatles hired Ringo because he was a better drummer.</p>