It takes 10,000 hours to become a master at something.
Posted by Paul Welch on February 1, 2012
Malcolm Gladwell writes some fantastic books. My favorites include Blink, Outliers, and The Tipping Point.
In Outliers, Gladwell introduces a concept:
10,000 hours of investment in your drawing skills will lead to a level of mastery. 10,000 hours of the study of the history of Venice will likely make you an honest-to-goodness expert in the field. This makes sense to me, even though life can’t always follow the rules of a formula. But it’s a good general guideline.
So let’s do the math:
· 10,000 hours / 365 days (1 year) = 27.5 hours/day (Impossible!)
· 10,000 hours / 1095 days (3 years) = 9.1 hours/day (Possible, but exhausting)
· 10,000 hours / 2190 days (6 years) = 4.6 hours / day (More likely)
Interesting to think about, isn’t it?
How many hours a day do you spend honing your craft?
Gladwell and Welch, were basing this rule on writing skills or the arts, but all professional people have many hours invested in their profession before mastery. I’m still not off my last blog post, which I wrote about getting Facebook Likes, but it got me thinking about my on Mastery of Property Management Business. I wear many hats in my business, and most of the duties that, I perform require a solid knowledge, and working of many thing but not a mastery of anyone of them. I have to be knowable in bookkeeping to keep the books, but I’m not a CPA.I have to be aware of the laws of property management, but I’m not a Lawyer, or Architect, or even a plumber. My Master is orchestrating.
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