Hey @longfield98! Great short article about this topic, I LOVE it (applied it to my Learning Japanese).
For everyone who did not read the book, the 10.000 Hour Rule has one caveat to watch out for:
- it only applies, if the practitioner gets very timely FEEDBACK!
This means, you can exercise the violin "alone" for 3 hours a day for 10 years (which is roughly 10.000 hours) and still be far behind someone who takes lessons with a skilled teacher for only 2 years, ~ something along the lines...
Another example would be INVESTMENT/TRADING. Since the nature of most investment strategies is such, that there is no immediate feedback (to measure your success you would need to wait for many trades and many weeks/months/years) the 10.000 Hour Rule also doesn't apply.
So before you get hyped and carve out your 10 year plan to become an EXPERT in your field, first make sure, that there is a way to get very timely or immediate feedback.
Cheers!
Very true, I missed the segment on timely feedback entirely on this post and it is very important! I really appreciate the comment there! Gave you a follow. Curious as to how many hours it took you to learn Japanese?
Hope you keep well.
Chat soon!
Apart from the fact that "learning Japanese" in my definition already starts with the first word or character learned, I can give you a short statistic on how much time I invested before going to Japan an being able to live, communicate and work there for more than a year:
I spent:
I used a spaced repetition software called ANKI. And I spent the first 3 months just learning the 2000 most used Kanji (Chinese characters). Only then did I start really learning words and sentences.
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