Sucess is so easy – Part 2
10,000 hours is the minimum number of work, or practice hours required to become ‘excellent’ at anything.
And it has to be completed with the shortest time possible. That is focused dedicated time.
For example - The Beatles (John and Paul talented beyond measure no doubt) even so between 1960 and 1962, in hamburg they performed 270 nights, the equivalent of 1200 nights of performing, before they ever even played as the famous “Beatles’.
Bill Gates, by the time he was in his sophomore year, he had been programming practically non-stop for seven consecutive years.
And (to really stretch it) Mozart, by the time the ‘child prodigy’ wrote the first work that is considered a masterpiece K271, he had been composing non-stop for ten years. Non-stop.
And these people were hugely talented. But they still had to work and apply.
So the good news – all success is just applied work and effort.
So the bad news – all success is applied work and effort
All dedicated work towards a goal will bring success.
The key is not talent its having a goal that drives you and motivates you enough that you will work hard enough and long enough to get it.
And if you have talent. Bonus
source Outliers – Malcolm Gladwell
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