hahaha, I tough you was from this side of the world
anyway german limi, how far are you from saarbrucken? (my gf step-mother live there, that's literally the only place of germany i know of)
Gladwell repeatedly mentions the "10,000-Hour Rule", claiming that the key to success in any field is, to a large extent, a matter of practicing a specific task for a total of around 10,000 hours.