The major premise of the book...
"Outliers: The Story of Success" (Malcolm Gladwell)
...is that most people "born brilliant" are not, in fact, born brilliant but actually achieve success through a combination of "luck" (being born at exactly the right time) and "practice". Specifically he cites a rule of thumb based on 10,000 hours. If you want to be brilliant at something then you have to spend something like 10,000 hours practising in order to be good enough. Whether you are a schoolboy Bill Gates sitting at a terminal night after night programming until you can do it in your sleep, or The Beatles playing insanely long sets night after night in Hamburg strip clubs, 10,000 hours is what it takes.
I reckon I spend something like 60-70 hours a week working (plus or minus a bit) for something like 46 weeks of the year. This means I am now approaching 20,000 hours working practice of doing this stuff. I am therefore proud to announce that I am a DOUBLE expert...
...as if.
Don't let these situations cause you to feel inadequate
Posted by: anonymous | June 11, 2009 at 03:43 PM