The 10,000 Hour Rule
I've all the time been fascinated by fabulous people, and what makes them who they are. Is it born talent? Is it innate ability? Is it pure genius? Is there something that separates world experts and geniuses from commonplace people, in which commonplace population cannot accomplish no matter how hard they try?
The 10,000 Hour Rule
The 10,000 Hour Rule
The 10,000 Hour Rule
The 10,000 Hour Rule
A merge months ago, I went to the bookstore and there was a book that caught my eye, even though it was only in white cover with black font and a uncomplicated bronze star on the top right hand corner. It was the title, which you've may have heard before, called Outliers - The Story of Success - by Malcolm Gladwell. Before falling asleep yesterday, the book was on my desk and I just flipped straight through it, rereading one of the most insightful chapters that I have come over in a while, called the 10,000 hour rule.
The part describes the journey process of how one becomes a world class expert. A world class master can be ordinarily defined as man who is widely known for being the top of the class, for being the best, for being able to accomplish in ways that separates them for every person else, especially at an age that no one expects them to.
For example, it talks about how there was study on comparing mean violinist students, to good violinist students, to the best violinist students - students who had inherent to be world-class soloists.
At the age of five, these students all practiced colse to 2 to 3 hours a week, about 20 to 30 minutes a day. At the age of eight, while the mean to good students were still practicing at about the same pace, the best ones started to excel, playing at 6 hours a week by age nine, about 45 minutes a day. Then they started playing 8 hours a week by age twelve, about 1 hour a day, 16 hours a week by age fourteen, about 2 hours a day, and at the age of twenty, they were hitting 30 hours a week, about 4 hours a day, just on playing a musical instruMent.
It goes on to talk about the Beatles, arguably one of the best rock bands in history. It tells the story about how, before they came to the United States that they had been already playing together for seven years. This was a period of time of where they started out as a high school band into a favorite collective band. But it all started out with a lucky chance straight through connections of random population that brought them from playing London to playing for the strips clubs of Germany.
For example, in Liverpool, London, the Beatles had only done 1 hour sessions for public, but in Hamburg, Germany, they had to play many times for 8 hours sessions, 7 nights a week. Usually, they played about 5 to 6 hours per night on sTAGe everyday. Before even going to America, they had already performed lived about twelve hundred times - way more than many bands get to accomplish on sTAGe in their enTire careers.
The part talks about currently the wealthiest man on the planet today - Bill Gates. How he came to make a software schedule that practically every singular man on the planet who owns a Computer uses - Windows - isn't a form of genius work, but of incredibly amount of work to getting to getting to that point.
Bill got the chance to use learn programming on a time-sharing Computer theory in 8th grade, something that most Americans did not even have way to at this time, which was colse to the late 1960's, since it had just been invented.
During a seven month period as a high school student, Bill averaged eight hours a day and seven days a week in the Computer room. All he did was program, program, and program; it was his obsession. He went there at night, he went there on the weekends, and at it would be a rare chance where he and his friends did not schedule for 20 or 30 hours a week.
Between 8th grade and the end of his high school senior year, these 5 years, he experience with programming in a time-sharing terminal, he had experience working in C-Cubed offices, he had experience working at a Computer center at the University of Washington for Isi (Information Sciences Inc.) working sometimes from 3 to 6 in the morning, and he had experience working for a technology business Trw as a programmer.
People who hear that any person who purposely drops themselves out of Harvard is insane, but the population who make these kind of decisions know what exactly they're doing. They know something that millions of population don't know. By this time, when Bill dropped out as a Harvard as sophomore, he had already been programming nonstop for seven years. To say that he wasn't determined to start his own software business from his lifetime passion, rather than studying more in school, would be something insane not to do for a man like him.
And what do the world's best violinists, the Beatles, and Bill Gates have in common? Yes, they are the best at what they do, they are famous, and most of the times, they are wealthy, but for a reason. These population spend hours practicing, starting from a young age, and by the time they hit their early twenties, they have accumulated a period of practice time that most other population never even come close to - 10,000 hours.
This is the amount that experts say it takes to reach true mastery. And all these population whether took benefit of a lucky chance given to them at the time or created their own chance straight through endless practice - something that upon first Watch no one would know until it they demonstrated their talents.
So what can the 10,000 rule teach us? It teaches us that if we want to be the best at something, at the top of our game, it's not about special talent. It's about putting in the hours and hours of practice until it is something that just becomes a part of us.
And even if we are at an age when we think it's too late, it's beyond doubt never too late to learn something new or become highly good at something. All of the population above started out taking about thirty minutes a day doing something, which increased to an hour a day, then two hours a day, and so forth.
From composers such as Mozart, to legendary chess players such as Bobby Fischer, these genius didn't start out as genius. They took about 10 years of 10,000 hours to become who they are. Studies show that there's no such evidence that "genius" most of us think are born with magical, innate talent. They just practice much, much, much more than every person else who's doing the same thing.
An commonplace man may see an master as somebody "out of reach", but an master sees an commonplace person, and knows exactly how much hard work they put into it to be where they are. So I guess the question is, every person who wants to be "the best," who wants to be a guru, a master, a expert, to be at the top, are they willing to seriously put in the commitMent, the work, the training; all this to acquire about 10,000 hours of practice to be at the top, to be the best, to be the next genius?
The 10,000 Hour Rule
