Tuesday, January 13, 2009

Practise

Malcolm Gladwell claims it takes 10,000 hours of concentrated practice to be truly great at anything.

6 comments:

cara said...

who is malcolm gladwell?

I better start keeping a log book.
:)

Anonymous said...

I don't know yet, Marc Mayer, the new director of the national gallery(who I met when I was in Montreal, and was the director of the Musée d'art contemporain at the time) quoted him. He's full of stuff like that...Mayer I mean...

Anonymous said...

So just under three and a half years, if you do it every day for eight hours.

Ryan K said...

Malcolm Gladwell is a ex-pat Canadian journalist (now in NYC writing for "The New Yorker" I think) whose notable book is called "Tipping Point." In it he describes, in somewhat cold and exacting but still interesting detail, the phenomenon of how an object of popular culture (ex. a gadget or a rock band) goes from unknown to ubiquitous.

cara said...

Thanks Disclaimer!

Denis said...

I guess that's why I am so god at sitting around doing nothing; I have for sure spent more than 10,000 concentrating hours doing that.