The 10, 000 hours rule

You know how often we try to learn something and rush in with full enthusiasm, then kind of get dissuaded when it seems a bit uphill or doesn't come to you as quickly as you need to and then abandon it. I do, in fact, i could write a whole post on unfinished projects in my life - driving and swimming being the latest ones in danger of falling off my list. I am still tenaciously pursuing  my French, mind you.

Chanced on this post by Blogger Carol of Ifbyyes.wordpress.com, http://ifbyyes.wordpress.com/2012/04/25/why-we-dont-want-our-son-to-think-hes-smart/#comment-6991 and wow, it makes a lot of sense. Practice makes a man perfect. Try, try until you get it again - adages like those,  please don't dismiss them.

From the article itself - 10,000 hours. That’s 9 hours a day for 3 years, or 3 hours a day for 10 years, or 1 hour a day for TWENTY SEVEN YEARS, for one to be great at something. Not merely good. She talks about the difference between smart and hardworking. And I will not say more. Read it and do share it :) And no, I am not ever going to call my  kids smart, at least to their face.


Comments

  1. Uma28 April 2012 at 09:16

    Interesting, I say!
    I so agree with the part about the tendency to slack off when things don't come as easily to us as expected. Also, the nature to compare ourselves to others..all of this makes us give up before we have achieved our full capacity.

    ReplyDelete
  2. Chatty Wren28 April 2012 at 09:57

    True, Uma. The fear of failure makes us never manage to get out of our comfort zones and put an honest attempt to even try attempting something!! You don't want to spoil the label of smart so you tend to try fewer and easier things, so limiting!

    ReplyDelete
  3. Sujatha Sathya5 May 2012 at 07:41

    that's a lot of math for my little brain but i get the point and it does make sense when we really want to achieve something

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. Chatty Wren5 May 2012 at 22:19

      :) Now my problem is figuring out exactly what I want to be good at!! hopefully don't spend all this time just to do that!

      Delete
    2. Sujatha Sathya7 May 2012 at 08:07

      HAHAHAHAHHA yeah...same here :)

      Delete

Post a Comment

Leave a comment!

Popular posts from this blog

The slow thawing

I realise I am inconsistent in lots of stuff and instead of my usual defensive spiel,  here is a quiet acceptance of that. Guilty of that and many more things....but not being disciplined tops the list. It shows how I take care of myself, how I keep order at home, how I generally mange myself and my world. How easy it is for me to not keep up to anything consistently....Its embarassing, its seen in the constant self-talk I have with myself. It shows up in stuff pending over the week and taking over weekend, it shows in the amount of dirt that came out of cleaning under the dish-washer, just one of those things which I had been forever planning to do; it shows in how I finally managed to paint my toe-nails after one year - sometimes there was no nailpolish remover; or nail polish itself; other times it was something I remembered just before bedtime or just when stepping out, hence no time to dry itself; sometimes I did remember but pushed it away for a bit and then forgot because so...
Read more

May 2013 - The Elusive One

Image
Think back to a month in your life. Do you remember any month or period specifically from the sweeping past or present? Maybe the month before the board exams, last month in the hostel eagerly awaiting to get back home, the month before you were getting hitched that was crammed with frantic shopping and plans on the side to run-away solo or when you were expecting your first baby, waiting for the moment and savoring the peace as you balance one of the last books you will read in peace on your tummy.. I seem to have always had conflicting emotions in every situation, constant yin-yang and the entire range in between. As a part of this group  celebrating our first anniversary on June 2, 2013, we were given a small challenge. Totally voluntary, I must add. The theme being 'The Elusive One'. One could choose to do something new, make a small change in your lifestyle, person..something you've been putting off for too long. You get the drift, move out of your comfort zones and ...
Read more

New Year Resolutions - Blogathon 2014 Post 1

Hello all! This is the first in the series of posts for the month of January, Blogathon initiative by Dreamy Mommy here . Today's prompt is New Year Resolutions. In fact, in my hastily scribbled end-of-year post I did touch briefly on this. In the last few years, I like to make resolutions or declarations, whichever, in writing. This is because in the course of steering one'e life through uncharted waters and all that, it is easy to land up someplace you simply did not intend going. My main compass-points for this year are - 1. Take one day at a time - each day is important, value it. 2. Move it, move it - So get moving in some way - a walk, a jog, yoga, dance... 3. Reflect before you speak and/or write. 4. Take responsibility for yourself and what you want to do, easy just does not do it. 5. Be thankful, be grateful, be positive and open-minded. Appreciate differences. 6. Put everything down and listen to my kids when they are talking - even if they are repeating ...
Read more