The 10,000 Hour Rule

I tend to believe this too. With this much hours put into it you must have learned a freakin' lot. Done lots of mistakes and learned from them too. You had to persist and developed will power bigger than others. And from the outside this looks like a natural thing to others, but you worked you as.s off to get where you are now...

I believe you shouldn't limit your hours per day, it limits your creativity occurence factor. Let go.

Time investment is important, yeah. But so many other things matter as well.

Don't agree with the 10000 hours = master etc.

Concentrated time is very important to master anything. However, I dont know about your 10k hours. How did you come up with that figure?

Very believable. But I usually start work even after a 100 hours and than just gain the exp. along the way.

Time investment is important. But time management is equally important. Hence, planning your day is leads the road to success

Personally, I think it is true that 10,000 hours will make you an expert...but I also think that you can become an expert much faster than that. Really if you read 2-3 books on a subject you know more about that subject than the vast majority of people out there. You could then at least talk to novices.

I understand your point that ANYONE can become an expert and that it is not innate genius. That is a good and important point, but I also think it is important not to fall into the trap of waiting until you have 10,000 hours to begin making a contribution in your chosen niche'. Read a couple of good books on the subject and start contributing.

Interesting theory. One I happen to believe in, at least to a degree.

just wondering. Where did you find that theory?

regards

Simon

I agree with what Sherman has to say. There is no rule that once you've reached 10,000 hours you're an expert! There are also things you can become "expert" in much faster. It is a good idea to start exploring a niche (and contributing, like Sherman said) and as you do so, you'll gain much of the experience you need.

your views are relevant,but i don't agree 100% to that.i believe to be successful at the 10,000 hours is not the success end,expert in the realm of success believe is a journey,until you get to the success end but mind you there is no end to sucess in life.

The whole 10,000 hour thingy is highlighted in detail in the book Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell. Excellent theory and I agree with him.

I am with Sherman and Jenn, especially when you consider that some people can do a whole lot more in the course of an hour than others can. Besides, what constitutes "doing"? Is it a question of reading about something, or actually doing it? Reading a book might be nice, but doing that alone won't ever help you become a marathon runner, fantastic basketball star, or even an expert writer.

10,000 hours just seems so arbitrary. Why not 9,993 hours? Why not 9,500 hours? Just seems like a nice round number. I have read Gladwell's book where he makes this assertion, and I think this type of effort will surely lead to success, but how do you explain those that don't have this many hours of time invested yet have mastery of a skill?

E.

The amount of time it would take you to master a subject is the amount of time it takes, nothing more, nothing less. Remember, the ability to learn and thus master something is a subject in it's own. It really doesn't matter "what" you're trying to learn. What matters is "how".

This doesn't mean I disagree with "10,000 Hour Rule" completely. But not everything takes that much time. Let's say a someone teaches me how to make money online from scratch, and asks me to strictly follow the instructions, I might start making dollars within a week.

The reason people take more or less time in, say, Internet Marketing, is that they try to learn many things assuming them to be pre-requisites, while they might not be. A newbie might want to make quick bucks by creating a simple blog. While a fairly decent programmer might FIRST want to expand his skills to a new level thinking it would help in his IM carrier. He could have simultaneously done what the newbie did, which many don't.

In the above example, the programmer thought his programming skills and his ability to make money online were the same thing. But hey, they're different subjects all together.

Never take your eye off the goal, and that would give you the accurate measurement of what it takes to get there.

Regards,
Revolves.

Read ten books - the right ten books - about a subject and you'll be an "expert." I read lots of books and for the things I do for a living I could point to ten key books that if someone read and understood would make them an "expert."

Goes for trading what I do for a living and I think for marketing too. Of course after reading the books you need experience so that is where the time factor comes in.

But some things don't require experience. For instance in a previous life I was in a phd history program. You can take ten books about a historical topic and be on par with top scholars on a historical subject if you read the right ten books - and think about them, understand them, and connect them together. What happens is that in a field there are usually about ten key books and all of the other books are just inspired by them or trying to argue against them.

I acknowledge the theory 100%

Most of us start learn new things motivatedly. At start they spend more and more time in achieving excellance. But as the time goes on and one get's a bit knowledge of the subject. He looses motivation.

So if you want to succeed keep your self reminding that you are on the early brinks of a long ladder. What ever you do, complete your 10,000 hrs flight, before analyzing your achievements.

Wow.. very interesting! :-)