"Professor Ericsson discovered that what separated the violinists’ skill levels was not natural-born talent but the hours of practice they had logged since childhood. The future teachers registered around 4,000 hours, the very good violinists 8,000 and the elite performers more than 10,000 hours. The same study was conducted with pianists, with similar results.
Published in 1993 in Psychological Review, the paper later formed the basis for the so-called 10,000-hour rule described in MalcolmGladwell’s “Outliers” (2008), which holds that it takes roughly 10,000 hours of practice to achieve mastery in a skill or field.
Professor Ericsson focused on what he called “deliberate practice,” which entails immediate feedback, clear goals and focus on technique.
According to his research, the lack of deliberate practice explained why so many people reach only basic proficiency at something, whether it be a sport, pastime or profession, without ever attaining elite status. A Sunday golfer may whack balls around the course for years, but without incorporating such methods, that player will never be come the next Tiger Woods."
If you want to achieve the status of an elite expert by performing "deliberate practice" only during working hours, then such practice will take about 6 years.
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