I was listening to a podcast today, and it was all about becoming good at doing something. The estimate for becoming an expert at something is 10000 hours.
The person in the podcast made some very valid points. The best guys at anything work incredibly hard.
Take the Beatles, great songwriters, great mix, possibly most successful band ever. Of course Lennon and McCartney were geniuses, but you know they played 8 hours a day for 7 days a week for about 2 months when in Hamburg. That constant playing and work at a tough gig prepared them for the days later and built their fundamental skills.
For soccer fans (UK = football), possibly the best player ever in George Best was known for his drinking and high living, yet he was less known for spending hours every day kicking a tennis ball against a door. He used to practice hitting the door knob consistently from any angle until he could do it to perfection.
Oh and just for my whinge of the day I have been on suck out city again. 4 games in a row I got sucked out for pretty much all in now down 6BI, going to bed. But I am going to keep going when I have played 10k hours I will be winning!
Sounds interesting.
I heard about this 10.000 hour rule before, like when you want to become fluent at learning a language.
Where did you get this podcast ?
Its all about a challenge that runs every year trying to help people on the internet:
http://tubbynerd.com/
Todays blog post has an audio file, it is all about how people need to practice and keep trying, and he talks about this this 10000 "flight hours" and that it is the only way to get good is to work at it