The 10,000 hour rule and WF - How Long Does it Really Take??

You don't have to be an expert in anything to succeed at IM. You just have to do a certain amount of things correctly.

Jason,

I spent 3 hours a day for three solid months learning and applying everything I learnt here before I made my first money.

The second lot of money came really quickly after that.

That was just my experience. Other people have different stories

Di

Hi Jason,

For me, its not about about how much time I spent here before I started making good money. Spending time here doesn't in itself make people money. Working in their businesses is what makes people money.

Sure, I accept that this can, for some people, be part of the educational process involved in learning what to do before you do it, but that's another matter, isn't it? But you seem to be equating/measuring the hours spent here, and the money earned from your business? Those are two different things.

I didn't spend that much time here, when I started. In my case, just enough, unfortunately, to follow a lot of consensuses of opinion which turned out to be rather misguided ones, and based on factual mistakes, and duly to become misled by them, so that I wasted nearly 4 months when I did start work. However, that may all have been part of my learning-curve.

It depends how you measure it.

I have the "window" open for perhaps 12 hours per day, but I'm only reading/posting here for about 1 hour of that. Maybe a little more, some days.

Probably, yes.

But it's difficult to identify the proportions, really.

It makes for frequent 5-10-minute breaks from my work, and that does actually help me. Other people might prefer to go outside for 5/10 minutes, or something, but it helps me, anyway.

And of course, I still learn plenty here, and that helps.

That's the key question, isn't it?

It's difficult.

The less you know, the less experience and the less judgement you have, the more important (and more difficult!) it is to be able to distinguish between the people who really know what they're talking about and those who are just repeating endless stuff regurgitated from the Urban Myth School of internet marketing (unfortunately for me, those are the very ones with whose information I started off, before I knew any better).

I agree with the "holy cow" part, anyway ...

If I recall correctly, the 10,000 hour rule is how long it takes to master a physical skill like soccer or playing the violin -- two of the examples given in the book. It has to do with mental training, but also training the body.