10,000 Hours to Mastery
Experts who study creativity find that to get really, really, really good at something takes about 10,000 hours. That breaks down to about 40 hours a week for five years of constant practice. Or 20 hours a week for ten years.
Any well-known sports star, musician or other talented individual has done this: Tiger Woods, Tony Robbins, Dale Carnegie, Shakespeare, Nicola Tesla or any other name you can think of. Mozart put his 10,000 hours in before he was eight-years-old.
The point is, to excel in anything takes time, dedication and commitment. To become an expert at anything doesn’t happen overnight.
Perhaps you know someone who tried to learn to play an instrument, intending to become world famous? They took lessons, came back home and practiced a little bit and continued that cycle for a few weeks or months. Perhaps they even kept it up for a few years. But they were never really good, were they? It’s because they didn’t commit to the 10,000 hours.
The reason I mention this is because you’re currently in the process of training your mind. And to really excel at creative thinking and breaking out of the mold will require time, dedication and commitment.
The good news is that the mind can be trained to fast-track the learning process, by building on the lessons learnt and experience gained by others who have been before. That’s the purpose of this website: to gather together tools that have proved useful in the past.
The process of finding worthwhile tools can be frustrating - there’s a huge amount of worthless info out there. I’ve had to spend way more than 10,000 hours sifting through useless books, websites and other tools to prepare a collection of meaningful tools.
Have I missed something?
Do you know of something truly worthwhile which hasn’t been mentioned?
Please let me know by posting a comment.
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