Andrew Robinson in Nature:
The ‘ten-year rule’ of creativity and genius, identified by psychologist John Hayes in 1989, states that individuals in both the arts and sciences need a decade of learning and practising a craft or discipline before they can make a breakthrough. Many scientists fit that pattern.
For example, Charles Darwin conceived his theory of natural selection in 1838, ten years after immersing himself in science at university. Albert Einstein’s theory of special relativity was published in 1905, ten years after he began to question the speed of light. And in 1990, Tim Berners-Lee invented the web server and browser that became the World Wide Web, a decade after making his first web-like computer programme.
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