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18 Jan
In the book Outliers, Malcolm Gladwell argues that the reason for success lies in the accumulation of experience and practice on a specific task. He said in order to be good and successful at something, you need to spend around 10,000 hours doing it.
In one of his research, he discovered a disproportionate number of elite Canadian hockey players are born in the first few months of the calendar year. (e.g. January to April) The reason for this was since the hockey leagues determine eligibility by the calendar year, someone that is born in the beginning of the year will be bigger compared to someone born in December. This is often enough to identify the children as better athletes and once they get into training camp, they get an head-start in accumulating practices and experience. Gladwell refer to this as the accumulated advantage.
If he is right and if practice does in fact leads to perfection, shouldn’t you get started on what you always wanted to do and be good at? We don’t get to decide which month are we born in but we can decide when we start practicing. The best day to start was yesterday but starting today is definitely better than tomorrow.
i agree with that statement 200%
if practice leads to perfection, start now!
Already starting! Lets keep rolling!
Right on! Let’s Roll! Hehe.
i was once told:
“practice does not make perfect.perfect practice makes perfect.”
coz people practicing wrongly will still suck, kalau tidak pun… he will be a SUPER sucker. LOL
anyway this is a good post. 10,000 hours… hmmm… thats like 416.666… days. meaning dedicate 1 year and half of my life to something… interesting
@rob, @dinoza, @isaac: yea! start right here and right now
@julian well that is pretty impossible. You need to eat sleep and even if you work 8 hours at it a day, u need more than 3 years. But that doesn’t matter as if you don’t start now, it will only be longer
waw banyak reply XD
leers at guitar~~
This is the exact thing that’s stopping me from starting anything.. if u hate to suck at stuff and it takes like 10,000 hours of practice to be good… maybe i rather not do it…
haha sounds like a blog post
@john then maybe you don’t really want to be good at it? The drive to be better should be all you need to push through that wall
@massy everyone decided to comment NOW!
@moebius go go
The same idea is covered by George Leonard in his book Mastery.
The only difference is Gladwell was a writer and Leonard was a former karate or judo champion.
My RM0.02
*typo – Gladwell IS a writer
@ahmad ah good to know that. I guess Gladwell being the more recent one is the one we remember. Short attention span, we have.
Wrote an article in response to yours
http://namor.tumblr.com/post/343955158/the-passion-virus
I agree 100%.
Starting faster give you chance to accumulate more experience, but also TO START something in itself is important.
How many times you feel must do something, but delaying, delaying to start to do?