How To Get Expertise In A Lot Fewer Than 10,000 Hours - a podcast by Sean DSouza

Is the 10,000 hours principle true? And if it's true, what are your chances of success? And what are the biggest flaw? How do you take the concept of Malcolm Gladwell's 10,000 Hours story (He took it from a K.Anders Ericsson study) and reduce the number of hours? Is talent really attainable in fewer hours?

 

Have you ever watched a 16-year-old go for a driving test?

He probably practices for two or three weeks, off and on, and then after that, he drives. Now, imagine they changed the rules of the driving test. Imagine they said that you needed 10,000 hours to drive. How many of us would be on the roads today?

Several years ago, best-selling author Malcom Gladwell wrote a book called “Outliers”.

Within that book, there was this concept of 10,000 hours, and the concept was very simple. It said that if you wanted to be exceedingly good at something, you needed to spend at least 10,000 hours. As you can quite quickly calculate, that’s about 10 years of very had work or 5 years of extremely hard work.

The interesting thing about 10,000-hour principle is that two sets of people jump on it, the people that had already put in their 10,000 hours in something and those who hadn’t; but what if you hadn’t?

What if you hadn’t put in those 10,000 hours? Were you doomed to be always untalented?

Understanding this concept of the 10,000 hours is very important, especially if you want to take vacations. You have to get very skilled at a lot of things very quickly. If you don’t understand the concept, then you struggle for no reason at all.

In today’s episode of the Three-Month Vacation, we’re going to cover three things.

The first is, why is the 10,000 hours true?
The second, what are the biggest flaws in the 10,000 hours?
The third is, how do you go about shortening that process, so that you just do maybe a thousand hours?

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