This isn't Science magazine; an interesting or thought-provoking idea is just as valuable as a repeatable experiment.

Yes, in the same way a good fiction story is. "Wouldn't it be nice if life were so simple as I'm about to describe?"

But this doesn't present itself as a fiction, this presents itself as true, when it's clearly the case that the author has no idea if it's true or not, having not done the requisite legwork to verify.

> to become good at something, which I think requires far less time and dedication.

> I claim that it takes roughly 1,000 hours of practice

It presents itself as neither fiction nor reference. It presents itself as a thought and a claim.