Create Your Own Luck
Posted: January 20th, 2010 | Author: Cason Cusack | Filed under: Careers, Ingenuity, Lifestyles, Personal Aspirations | Tags: 10000 hours, hard work, Ingenuity, malcolm gladwell, passion | 4 Comments »
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Thomas Edison once said, “I haven’t failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that don’t work.” To quote from a book I am currently reading, “If you wanted to be a professional golfer, it wouldn’t be unusual to dedicate yourself to hitting 10,000 or more golf balls until the precise combination of movements in your swing were so ingrained in your muscle memory that you no longer had to think about it consciously.” This number, 10,000, is significant and has been made more popular as the basis of OUTLIERS: THE STORY OF SUCCESS By Malcolm Gladwell. The premise of Gladwell’s book is a study by psychologist K. Anders Ericsson. In this study Mr. Ericsson estimates 10,000 as the number of hours Read the rest of this entry »
