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2669: How To Be Good Enough At Anything In 20 Hours by Terry Toh

Optimal Living Daily - Personal Development and Self-Improvement

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Introduction

The 10,000-hour rule was popularized by Malcolm Gladwell in his 2008 book Outliers. It's the notion that we need at least 10,000 hours of deliberate practice to become an expert or master performer in any given field. However, there are two small caveats to this concept. This just happens to be the number of hours that promising violinists had put in by the time they were 20 years old. To become an expert, one would need to invest in many hours of deliberate Practice - and this need not necessarily be 10,000.

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