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<strong>The</strong>y found a strik<strong>in</strong>g differenceamong the groups. All three groupsspent the same amount <strong>of</strong> time—overfifty hours a week—participat<strong>in</strong>g <strong>in</strong>music-related activities. All three hadsimilar classroom requirements mak<strong>in</strong>gdemands on their time. But the twobest groups spent most <strong>of</strong> their musicrelatedtime practic<strong>in</strong>g <strong>in</strong> solitude: 24.3hours a week, or 3.5 hours a day, forthe best group, <strong>com</strong>pared with only 9.3hours a week, or 1.3 hours a day, forthe worst group. <strong>The</strong> best viol<strong>in</strong>istsrated “practice alone” as the most important<strong>of</strong> all their music-related activities.Elite musicians—even those whoperform <strong>in</strong> groups—describe practicesessions with their chamber group as“leisure” <strong>com</strong>pared with solo practice,where the real work gets done.Ericsson and his cohorts found similareffects <strong>of</strong> solitude when they studied241/929

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