The Significance of 10,000
This week's topic, "The Significance of 10,000" Most of you are probably wondering why in the heck am I talking about the number 10,000, while a few of you may have a slight idea as to where I am going with this.
There is a best-selling book titled, "Outliers: The Story of Success" by Malcolm Gladwell. I highly recommend this book to those of you who have not read it. Gladwell provides a wealth of information in regards to being successful and argues if we are born with luck or does hard work really pave the road to success for you. He introduces the 10,000 hour rule throughout the book and after intensive research he discovered that it takes about 10,000 hours before you are to become an expert in your desired field. Sounds crazy, but when you actually analyze it, it makes sense.
Most of us want to be successful but do not want to have to put any work in, most importantly we do not want to sacrifice. In our culture today, we live in a world of entitlement and everyone is misled and misunderstood about the principles of success. When you want to be successful you must be willing to fail but most importantly to get back up and try it again. The key is that every time we fail reflect on what did we learn and how can we improve from the experience.
I am a big believer that you should never stop learning or quit practicing your skills. We need to utilize every day as an opportunity to learn something new and/or practice a new skill. I mean how do you ever want to grow as a professional if you are not willing to exceed your expectations and do more. Every athlete throughout the world practices every day regardless of how much they have accomplished throughout their career. They know that if they stop working on their craft, they psychologically feel that they are getting beat by the competition. By competition I do not mean other people, the only competition there is ourselves. At the end of the day, the only person who have to answer to is yourself. Did you learn something new today? Do you know more than you did yesterday? etc.
We have all been told once in our life or are familiar with the saying,"Practice makes perfect." Well, I would have to agree more with the words of Les Brown,"Practice makes for improvement." The more we practice, the more we learn, know and grow leads us on a journey to success.
You are probably telling yourself right now that you don't have 10,000 hours to spare or that you will never get to completing 10,000 hours. Do not think too much into the principle, it doesn't necessarily mean you need to spend 10,000 hours on becoming an expert. This principle was based on evidence from Gladwell's research, for some of us it might take more or less than 10,000 hours. The only way to find out is to start now, we all have 24 hours in a day and the only difference is how we decide to spend those 24 hours. Depending on your schedule figure out a way to where you can fit in what it is you want to be great at. Obviously, the more time you put in the faster you will become successful but regardless of how much time you put in a day all that matters is getting started.
Everything takes time, remember that this is a process that we have to be patient with. Although success takes time and patience, you must take action immediately to get results. No one has ever become successful over night, almost everyone had to pay their dues to get to where they are. If it was easy, simply everyone would be successful, but it's up to you to decide now what you want to get out of your life.
I will end with this, "Do you want to be in the game or would you rather watch the game from the stands?"
Have a great weekend, and see y'all next week. Cheers!
P.S.
Here's some Arcade Fire to help get you fired up!
Most of us want to be successful but do not want to have to put any work in, most importantly we do not want to sacrifice. In our culture today, we live in a world of entitlement and everyone is misled and misunderstood about the principles of success. When you want to be successful you must be willing to fail but most importantly to get back up and try it again. The key is that every time we fail reflect on what did we learn and how can we improve from the experience.
I am a big believer that you should never stop learning or quit practicing your skills. We need to utilize every day as an opportunity to learn something new and/or practice a new skill. I mean how do you ever want to grow as a professional if you are not willing to exceed your expectations and do more. Every athlete throughout the world practices every day regardless of how much they have accomplished throughout their career. They know that if they stop working on their craft, they psychologically feel that they are getting beat by the competition. By competition I do not mean other people, the only competition there is ourselves. At the end of the day, the only person who have to answer to is yourself. Did you learn something new today? Do you know more than you did yesterday? etc.
We have all been told once in our life or are familiar with the saying,"Practice makes perfect." Well, I would have to agree more with the words of Les Brown,"Practice makes for improvement." The more we practice, the more we learn, know and grow leads us on a journey to success.
You are probably telling yourself right now that you don't have 10,000 hours to spare or that you will never get to completing 10,000 hours. Do not think too much into the principle, it doesn't necessarily mean you need to spend 10,000 hours on becoming an expert. This principle was based on evidence from Gladwell's research, for some of us it might take more or less than 10,000 hours. The only way to find out is to start now, we all have 24 hours in a day and the only difference is how we decide to spend those 24 hours. Depending on your schedule figure out a way to where you can fit in what it is you want to be great at. Obviously, the more time you put in the faster you will become successful but regardless of how much time you put in a day all that matters is getting started.
Everything takes time, remember that this is a process that we have to be patient with. Although success takes time and patience, you must take action immediately to get results. No one has ever become successful over night, almost everyone had to pay their dues to get to where they are. If it was easy, simply everyone would be successful, but it's up to you to decide now what you want to get out of your life.
I will end with this, "Do you want to be in the game or would you rather watch the game from the stands?"
Have a great weekend, and see y'all next week. Cheers!
P.S.
Here's some Arcade Fire to help get you fired up!
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