So far I have read just about 100 pages in my book "Outliers". And this blog is going to be about what I have learned throughout the first 1/3 of this novel. (If you haven't figured that out from the title yet)
The first part of this book talks bout how you need not only talent, but you need lots of practice and opportunities. For an example of an opportunity, The Beatles, they are the most well known band across the world. They had a great opportunity to preform at Hamburg. They did not preform here because of the high pay there or the conditions. In fact they were not great. But they practiced here because of the amount of time they get to preform on stage. They would preform almost 8 hours a day on a daily basis. This was an ideal opportunity for the Beatles and was a big key to there success as a band.
The second part of the book is the 10,000 hour rule that Malcolm Gladwell came up with. After much researching he noticed a pattern between various people or groups that became successful. After 10,000 hours of practicing they would become "a master" at whatever they practiced. For example Bill Joy, creator of Java, he spent 8 hours a day writing code and programming computers. He spent more time in Michigan's computer center than he did all of his classes. He described himself as obsessed with programming. His opportunity was to work at the computer center as much as he wanted. This was Joy's Hamburg. After 10,000 hours of practice, he w one of the best programmers if not the best. After that he wrote all of the code for Java. He wrote this 35 years ago and we still use this program today. The only way he would have achieved this is by having the opportunity to work at the computer center and practicing for those 10,000 hours. Joy actually practiced well over 10,000 hours and therefore became successful.
These are the two main topics within the first 100 pages of "Outliers"
The first part of this book talks bout how you need not only talent, but you need lots of practice and opportunities. For an example of an opportunity, The Beatles, they are the most well known band across the world. They had a great opportunity to preform at Hamburg. They did not preform here because of the high pay there or the conditions. In fact they were not great. But they practiced here because of the amount of time they get to preform on stage. They would preform almost 8 hours a day on a daily basis. This was an ideal opportunity for the Beatles and was a big key to there success as a band.
The second part of the book is the 10,000 hour rule that Malcolm Gladwell came up with. After much researching he noticed a pattern between various people or groups that became successful. After 10,000 hours of practicing they would become "a master" at whatever they practiced. For example Bill Joy, creator of Java, he spent 8 hours a day writing code and programming computers. He spent more time in Michigan's computer center than he did all of his classes. He described himself as obsessed with programming. His opportunity was to work at the computer center as much as he wanted. This was Joy's Hamburg. After 10,000 hours of practice, he w one of the best programmers if not the best. After that he wrote all of the code for Java. He wrote this 35 years ago and we still use this program today. The only way he would have achieved this is by having the opportunity to work at the computer center and practicing for those 10,000 hours. Joy actually practiced well over 10,000 hours and therefore became successful.
These are the two main topics within the first 100 pages of "Outliers"
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| This is the club where The Beatles performed at in Hamburg, Germany |
So is it like something clicks in you at 10,000 hours or is it just you've practiced so much its hard not to be good at what you are doing.
ReplyDeleteI am taking computer programming right now and it is fun yet challenging. I put roughly 7 hours per week during a normal week into just computer programming related things. I will definitely try and master the skill of flying and hopefully accumulate more than 10,000 hours of flying. That is one of my future goals.
ReplyDeleteThat does sound like a really great book with lots of good messages in it. I like the 10,000 hours rule and how it applies to lots of things in real life. 1 year straight is only 8,760 hours so that is a lot of dedication.
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