Reading Sharing | Deliberate Practice - The 10,000 Hours Rule

This article is going to introduce the "10,000 Hours Rule" and have my own personal thoughts.

This series has been gone for a long time, but I will finish it anyway.

What is the 10,000 hour rule?

Anders Ericsson, author of Deliberate Practice, studied the development of violin students at the Berlin University of the Arts in 1993, and in 2008 Malkan Glawell's "Outliers" , citing this study. Gravel proposed that the necessary condition for becoming an expert in a certain field is that "you must spend 10,000 hours of practice", which is the so-called "10,000-hour rule".

The ten thousand hours rule

Gravel used the total number of hours of practice by violin students at the Berlin University of the Arts when they were 20 years old, and believed that they had trained for 10,000 hours to achieve today's achievements; another important evidence is the use of "The Beatles 1960~ The 1964 Show" They performed a total of 1,200 performances of 8 hours each, for a total of 9,600 hours.

unreasonable place

As mentioned in this book, while it certainly takes a lot of practice to become an expert, there are many loopholes in the 10,000-hour rule.

1. The fields are different. The authors suggest that at age 18, top violin students spent 7,400 hours practicing, but only 200 hours in memory research, far exceeding the established record. Depending on each area, the time it takes to practice will vary.

2. Different practice methods. Glawell cites research by violin students, but doesn't take practice methods into account. For example, if you use deliberate practice, it will be different from the target practice method, and it is more different from other general practice methods. Therefore, this judgment is likely to affect the results of the study.

3. Gravel misunderstood. In the study of violin students, not every student actually practiced 10,000 hours by the age of 20, and although they were all good, the amount of such practice was still not as good as that of " experts ", and it may take longer time to practice.

4. Performance is not the same as practice. In Glawell's evidence for the Beatles, what he said was the total number of hours of performance, but performance and practice are different and cannot be directly compared.

The 10,000 hour rule is unattractive

Apart from the many unreasonable aspects of the 10,000-hour rule, the 10,000-hour rule is not attractive at all. The author mentioned that the 10,000-hour rule is like saying to others, "You have to spend 10,000 hours doing repetitive things before you can achieve anything."

So the author gives a new interpretation here: "The reason why you spend 10,000 hours of practice is because everyone else has invested 10,000 hours or more of time to practice ."

my thoughts

Personally, after reading the "10,000-hour rule", I think that although it can be said to be a study, that is, " people who become experts spend a lot of time practicing " is a fact. But like the author said, it's totally unattractive, so I don't think it should stop here, because it's not really useful to spend 10,000 hours. For example, the memory research mentioned in the book took only 200 hours, and even if it was less than 200 hours, he had made great progress. Even if we don't spend 10,000 hours of practice, we can still make great progress, as long as you need it, or you are interested; not just to become an expert, but to grow and improve yourself.

in conclusion

The 10,000-hour rule was proposed by Malkan Glavel, who believed that it took 10,000 hours to become an expert. While the concept of " becoming an expert takes a long time to practice " is good, there are many loopholes in this rule, and it is not attractive; thus, a new definition of the 10,000-hour rule: " Take a long time to practice, not only to become an expert. , but also to make oneself more progress, grow, and compete with others. ”

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