Skip to main content

The 10,000 hour rule

What does it take to be an expert at anything? You have to really work at it. Kinney has spent up to eight years on a book, and he shares that work ethic with students he meets.

This video appears in:

Profile

Jeff Kinney

Children’s Author

Jeff Kinney is perhaps best known as the creator of Greg Heffley, the wry adolescent hero of Kinney’s best-selling Wimpy Kid series. Publisher’s Weekly says, “Kinney has a gift for believable preteen dialogue and narration, and the illustrations serve as a hilarious counterpoint to Greg’s often deadpan voice.”

Top