10,000 Hour Rule | And Miles To Go Before I Sleep
Throughout his book “Outliers,” Malcolm Gladwell repeatedly mentions the “10,000-Hour Rule”, claiming that the key to success in any field is, to a large extent, a matter of practicing a specific task for a total of around 10,000 hours. I remember at first feeling overwhelmed when I read this, but then a strange comfort and clarity sunk in. To put 10K hours into perspective, if you wrote for 3 hours a day 300 days a year it would take you just over 11 years to reach 10K hours. This begs the question, whatever you are doing right now, do you love it that much and if so are you putting in the work? If you do, then you are on your way. And if you don’t, then let go and find your passion without delay.
My brother found his passion and he’s well on his way to 10K. Every day he wakes up and puts in his time. One day he’ll cross the mark, a rainbow will not appear, a chorus will not sing, but likely he’ll be in the midst of something remarkable. Whoever you are out there, hopefully you are too.
I remind myself of the 10,000 hour rule all of the time. I’m not even halfway there and yet I know once I cross the mark (and don’t hear a chorus and don’t see a rainbow) I’ll be able to reflect back on a great journey well worth the time the people the joy the pain and of course the photographs.
Love your blog, thanks for sharing.
Thank you for this post. I love your blog and this post is exactly what I needed to read to put things into perspective. I wish your brother (and of course you and yours) the best of luck in all of your 10,000 hours.
Sometimes you know stuff. Sometimes you forget stuff.
Somehow, this is one of those things that I knew but had forgotten and needed to be reminded of right now. At this exact point in my year.
thanks 4 that!
all the best