That moment when I hit 10,000 hours on my favorite podcast app and realized it matched the 'mastery' number exactly

Hit 10,000 hours on my podcast app last week for true crime shows and now I can't stop wondering if that 10,000 hour rule is just a massive coincidence or if someone planned it that way, anyone else ever notice a weird milestone like that lining up too perfectly?

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ryan_clark4012d agoMost Upvoted

Did you ever stop to think about how many steps that actually takes over time? Tbh I hit 15,000 hours on a history podcast about old wars and now I can predict exactly which battles get mentioned in every episode. Honestly makes you wonder if there's some algorithm pushing us toward those round numbers on purpose.

tara70012d ago

My friend Jenny hit 10,000 hours on a gaming app for this one puzzle game and swears the levels started reading her mind after that. She said the game would literally put the hardest pieces right where she always clicked first, like it knew her habits better than she did. It honestly creeped her out enough that she deleted the app the next day.