I’ll start my blog with this great idea. It’s been said many times but it is definitely worth sharing.

The ONLY way you could become a world expert at something, is by practicing 10,000 hours. From piano experts to professional sport players and Nobel Prize writers. There is innate talent; however all have practiced at least 10,000 hours to achieve their level of expertize.

I quote from Malcom Gladwell’s Outliers Book (p. 40)

“…researchers have settled on what they believe is the magic number for true expertise: ten thousand hours. The emerging picture from such studies is that ten thousand hours of practice is required to achieve the level of mastery associated with being a world-class expert -in anything says neurologist Daniel Levin. In study after study, of composers, basketball players, fiction writers, ice skaters, concert pianists, chess players, master criminals, this number comes again and again…. One has not yet found a case in which true world-class expertise was accomplished in less time. It seems that it takes the brain this long to assimilate all that it needs to know to achieve true mastery”

If you want to become an expert at something, start practicing now. It would take you at least 3.5 years to get to 10,000 hours if you practice EVERY DAY for 8 hours. If you skip weekends, and only practice 4 hours a day, it would take you about 10 years.

Start teaching your kids an instrument or to get into new hobbies since it will take them a while to become good at them.