Why does it take so long to reach a professional skill level? 10,000 hours is a lot.
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The 10,000 hours pop-culture maxim comes from Malcolm Gladwell’s *Outliers*, in which the author suggests that exceptionally skilled people tend to be made so by a large volume of practice time at their skill; he bases this claim on looking at a variety of different people considered exceptional in fields like, including students of varying levels of expertise.
The thrust of the work — that practice produces excellence — is fine, but leaves out one part that is quite important: purpose. K. Anders Ericsson, a psychologist who studies expertise, visits the idea of practice in his scholarly work as well as giving it a more accessible treatment in lay books such as *Peak*. The thesis is that practice develops skill, but for optimal development there must be a *deliberate*, challenging aspect to practice — it should involve practicing the parts of a skill at which one is lagging, and must be done attentively and with the intention to improve.
They say 10,000 hours, but it’s not like an actual hard number where you are magically a professional.
10,000 hours is like 13-14 years, practicing two hours a day. But the purpose of the saying is that if you do practice a lot for a long time, then you will begin to feel it like a second nature.
Simply because you’ve done it so much.
10,000 hours is kinda fake thing from Malcolm book
They just show few example without the understanding of the whole. Every skills need different requirement
Athletes does not play better when they grow older.
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