Via Business Insider:
Dedication and talent mean a great deal, but how you go about learning something can mean just as much. Technology, technique, and definition narrow the places where the 10,000 hour rule applies.
Points:
- “…becoming world-class in something requires 10,000 hours of dedicated practice, originated with K. Anders Ericsson and was brought to a huge audience by Malcolm Gladwell in his book Outliers.
- “…becoming world class can take much less time, less than six months if you use certain learning techniques.”
- “Sometimes generalists who haven't dedicated themselves to any one thing can be superior.”
Ponder: Servanthood involves managing three assets and augmenting that management with four multipliers:
- Assets:
- Time
- Talents
- Treasure
- Multipliers:
- Training
- Technology
- Trade-offs
- Transformation (this is what innovation and creativity can do; it can vault you past the limits of the assets you manage)
