Logo: 10K HP community on Skool
The Skool community where readers of 10,000 Hours of Play practise the method together — turning the book’s quests, attributes, and alliances into a shared, ongoing game.
Type: community
By: Mark Diaz and Yu-kai Chou
When: 2025 (alongside the book launch)
Where it sits in their arc: After / alongside the landmark book — the practice layer around 10,000 Hours of Play
Where to get it / join: 10K HP - 10,000 Hours of Play (free to join)
What it is
10K HP — 10,000 Hours of Play is a free community hosted on Skool, created by Mark Díaz and Yu-kai Chou. It extends the book from a solo read into a group practice: members frame their goals as quests, treat habits as power-ups and setbacks as XP, and support each other across career, craft, and mindset. In the community’s own words, it is “not about grinding harder, it is about playing smarter,” where “growth here is not measured in hours but in progress, power and purpose.” As of mid-2026 it is a small, early community (roughly 88 members).
Core ideas
- Play, together — The 10K HP method becomes a shared game, with members holding each other accountable to quests rather than going it alone.
- Progress over hours — Success is measured in momentum and purpose, not clocked time — the community’s restatement of the book’s central reframe.
- Build your alliance — Directly enacts step 5 of the 10K HP framework: the community is the alliance that makes sustained play possible.
How it connects to the Guild’s practice
This is the living-room version of the book — a place to see how others apply the play-and-mastery lens (see The Disciplines — Many Lenses, One Room) to real goals. A Guild member curious about gameful self-direction can join free, observe the quest-and-reflection rhythm, and borrow what works. It pairs directly with 10,000 Hours of Play.
Related works
- 10,000 Hours of Play — The book this community is built around.
- Octalysis Prime — Chou’s separate, deeper gamification learning community; 10K HP is the lighter, life-design-focused sibling.
Notes from the room
Space for members to add their own takeaways, quotes, and how they used it. This is the part that grows.