Cork-based singer-songwriter Hank Wedel is clocking up the hours on the road

Cork’s favourite American singer has got around to releasing his debut album at last, writes Ellie O’Byrne

TEN thousand hours. That’s what it takes. In his book Outliers: The Story of Success, US journalist Malcolm Gladwell popularised the “10,000-hour rule”.

The secret to success, he claimed, was not in momentary strokes of genius, but in hard slog: Analyse the career of anyone from Bill Gates to The Beatles, and you’ll discover that they’ve clocked up a magical 10,000 hours of practice in their chosen field.