For me the corollary to this is: If you're going to stick with something for ten years, you better be having a lot of fun doing it along the way.
Check out this video which approaches the same issue from a slightly different point of view.
Saturday, November 16, 2013
Talent, IQ and the Secret to Success
In Malcolm Gladwell's Outliers he gives many examples of a phenomenon I've also witnessed in my own students over the years, and in my readings of the biographies of great writers. Gladwell puts it fairly succinctly. For someone to reach a level of competency in almost any field, sports, academia, dance, painting, blue collar jobs, an apprenticeship of roughly 10,000 hours is required. That equals roughly 10 years of hard work, committed, focused, trying and failing and trying again to learn your chosen craft.
For me the corollary to this is: If you're going to stick with something for ten years, you better be having a lot of fun doing it along the way.
Check out this video which approaches the same issue from a slightly different point of view.
For me the corollary to this is: If you're going to stick with something for ten years, you better be having a lot of fun doing it along the way.
Check out this video which approaches the same issue from a slightly different point of view.
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I really enjoyed this video. Thank you for posting it.
ReplyDeleteI have relied on my intelligence to get me by for far too long. I have a great appreciation for the results of long-term commitment, but ever since I can remember I have had a hard time staying focused for any length of time. I'm easily distracted and tend to just get by on my wits. I rarely see anything tangible come of fruition because I lose that commitment stamina and fail to see things to their end.
That has to change, no matter how Sisyphean the task may seem.
Thank you again for posting this.