10,000 hours to Mastery

Cloud · 03-11-2011, 12:44 PM

I'm sure most of you have heard this idea--that many successful people are not necessarily more talented than the rest of us, but have put in hours and hours of practice to master their specialty. The idea is it takes about 10,000 hours, or approximately several hours a day for 10 years. (If you haven't, see Malcolm Gladwell's book, Outliers: The Story of Success http://www.amazon.com/Outliers-Story...9868915&sr=8-1).

So, I was wondering--have any of you actually practiced something this long and mastered? Is there anything you'd want to practice for mastery?

03-11-2011, 12:44 PM	#1
Cloud ... Join Date: Feb 2007 Posts: 8,360	10,000 hours to Mastery I'm sure most of you have heard this idea--that many successful people are not necessarily more talented than the rest of us, but have put in hours and hours of practice to master their specialty. The idea is it takes about 10,000 hours, or approximately several hours a day for 10 years. (If you haven't, see Malcolm Gladwell's book, Outliers: The Story of Success http://www.amazon.com/Outliers-Story...9868915&sr=8-1). So, I was wondering--have any of you actually practiced something this long and mastered? Is there anything you'd want to practice for mastery? __________________ "Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And outlive the bastards!"

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