Doing a google search for the mastery hourly rule I came across this article. New Study Destroys Malcolm Gladwell's 10,000 Hour Rule
Basically its a review of 80+ studies on mastery and comes back saying the 10,000 hour rule is very dependent on the actual area where the person is invested in and not much to do with things like entrepreneurship. Ex.
• In games, practice made for a 26% difference
• In music, it was a 21% difference
• In sports, an 18% difference
• In education, a 4% difference
• In professions, just a 1% difference
Its interesting to look at and makes me think, about the 1% difference for professions. I have no idea how that can be correct, in my profession for online marketing, as I have trained and mastered my craft I see a massive difference, I see little things I didnt see 5 years ago that could of tanked my business profitability. There are things I have learned that have taken tasks that may have taken 500 hours to 20 hours through what I have learned in automation.
So I am really not sure here. I cant think of one informational business profession where 10,000 hours vs 50 hours would not provide a massive boost. Maybe if your on a assembly line pushing a red button to produce widgets I get it...but if your in my profession of marketing and ecommerce I think those 10,000 hours if I were to quantify it would be a 200% different over someone that has 50 hours, 100% difference over someone with 100 hours, then maybe 50% over someone with 500 hours...25% over someone with 5,000 but honestly that small percentage may be what makes all the difference. I saw an analogy here earlier of Usain Bolt running the 100 meter his record time is 9.63 the previous best was 9.75. These are miliseconds, so that extra little percentage difference could make ALL the difference. Understandable with professions being 1% better may mean 1% more profit so it may be different. But I still struggle with this study, its no help the the study link has very little information.
Any opinions on this?
Basically its a review of 80+ studies on mastery and comes back saying the 10,000 hour rule is very dependent on the actual area where the person is invested in and not much to do with things like entrepreneurship. Ex.
• In games, practice made for a 26% difference
• In music, it was a 21% difference
• In sports, an 18% difference
• In education, a 4% difference
• In professions, just a 1% difference
Its interesting to look at and makes me think, about the 1% difference for professions. I have no idea how that can be correct, in my profession for online marketing, as I have trained and mastered my craft I see a massive difference, I see little things I didnt see 5 years ago that could of tanked my business profitability. There are things I have learned that have taken tasks that may have taken 500 hours to 20 hours through what I have learned in automation.
So I am really not sure here. I cant think of one informational business profession where 10,000 hours vs 50 hours would not provide a massive boost. Maybe if your on a assembly line pushing a red button to produce widgets I get it...but if your in my profession of marketing and ecommerce I think those 10,000 hours if I were to quantify it would be a 200% different over someone that has 50 hours, 100% difference over someone with 100 hours, then maybe 50% over someone with 500 hours...25% over someone with 5,000 but honestly that small percentage may be what makes all the difference. I saw an analogy here earlier of Usain Bolt running the 100 meter his record time is 9.63 the previous best was 9.75. These are miliseconds, so that extra little percentage difference could make ALL the difference. Understandable with professions being 1% better may mean 1% more profit so it may be different. But I still struggle with this study, its no help the the study link has very little information.
Any opinions on this?
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