Welcome to Snapreads! Today, we\u2019re bringing you why most successful entrepreneurs don\u2019t believe in the 10,000-hour rule and what they do instead. This is the real key to achieving success!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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by Robert Greene<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Buy on Amazon<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n And what if we told you that the person who made the original study actually went on to debunk it?<\/p>\n\n\n\n According to the New York Times<\/em> Best Seller book written by Malcolm Gladwell<\/a>, Outliers: The Story of Success<\/em>, what it takes to be an expert and a master performer is just 10,000 hours of practice. Gladwell\u2019s 10,000 hours strategy became so popular in the business world that it became a commonplace rule to follow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Gladwell referred to a study by Anders Ericsson, who observed violin students studying at a music academy in Berlin. Ericsson found that the most accomplished students shared one thing in common: they had put in 10,000 hours of practice by the time they turned 20 years old.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Gladwell further examined the Beatles, saying that before playing in Hamburg in the early 1960s, they had put in 10,000 hours of practice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Bill Gates is another example, who supposedly put in 10,000 hours of programming before he co-founded Microsoft.<\/p>\n\n\n\n So, the 10,000-hour rule was born: 10,000 hours of practice and you\u2019re guaranteed to become an expert in whatever given field. That meant putting in about 417 days\u2019 worth of hours, three hours a day, for 3,333 days, which mounted up to a little over nine years. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The rule is catchy, irresistible<\/a>, and more or less dramatically untrue. Anders Ericsson was one of the first people to protest this rule.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The 10,000-hour rule focuses on the quantity of practice put into something, but successful entrepreneurs know that no matter how much you practice at something, unless the practice has quality, you\u2019re just wasting your time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n If you want to get better at a sport, would you achieve as much success practicing and experimenting on your own for Gladwell\u2019s three hours a day as you would achieve practicing with an expert for three hours?<\/p>\n\n\n\n There is no contesting this. The expert will give you feedback, tips, and tricks and help you improve your form, technique, and confidence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Gladwell\u2019s rule focuses on quantity, and every entrepreneur who\u2019s been around for some time knows that not all practice is equally helpful.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This is what successful individual people use instead. Deliberate practice, which focuses on the irreplaceable quality of time practicing, not the number of hours. In a nutshell, deliberate practice means that in order to get better at something and someday reach expert status at it, you deliberately develop specific abilities, identify weaknesses, work on these weaknesses, use the help of experts, and push yourself out of your comfort zone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In his counter-study, Ericsson says, <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThis distinction between deliberate practice aimed at a particular goal and generic practice is crucial \u2026 because not every type of practice leads to improved ability. You don\u2019t get benefits from mechanical repetition, but by adjusting your execution over and over to get closer to your goal.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n Ericsson explains that the quantity practice Gladwell preaches is useless because the effects from \u201cmere experience\u201d of practicing a skill are dramatically different from the benefits of deliberate practice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Without feedback, you\u2019ll never reach the \u201ctop ranks.\u201d There is no exception. You must get feedback from experts, coaches, and mentors who will give you specific ways on how to improve. <\/p>\n\n\n\n This adds to the deliberate practice that Ericsson spoke about, which focuses on specific skills needed to master an overall skill.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Everyone agrees that deliberate practice can sometimes be incredibly hard and time-consuming. That means that 10,000 hours is something you can surpass, or depending on you, require less<\/em> than them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In Peak: Secrets from the New Science of Expertise<\/em>, Ericsson makes one thing very clear. Feedback is one of the most important keys to success, and many entrepreneurs agree with him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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