What Is the 10000 Hour Rule?
The 10000 Hour Rule is just that. This is the idea that it takes approximately 10000 hours of deliberate practice to master a skill. For instance, it would take 10 years of practicing 3 hours a day to become a master in your subject. It would take approximately 5 years of full-time employment to become proficient in your field. Simply work out how many hours you have already achieved and calculate how many more you need to clock up before you reach 10000.
Here’s the good news. If you want to become an expert in your field, be that art, sport or business – you can. Contrary to popular belief, it’s not always innate genius or talent that will make you a success, it’s the hours that you put in, which means that ANYONE can do it.
I found a good updated excerpt from Ericsson (2000) on Expert Performance and Deliberate Practice (the original research)
– y es, I can just quote Malcomb Gladwell, but I rather go to the source 🙂
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