Have you ever insisted on doing one thing, alternating between cold and hot for decades?

There is a view that if you want to make outstanding achievements in a certain field, you have to spend 10000 hours in this field.

The law of 65,438+0,000 hours comes from the statement of Canadian writer Gladwell in Alien: "The genius in people's eyes is extraordinary, not because of extraordinary talent, but because of continuous efforts. Ten thousand hours of tempering is a necessary condition for anyone to become extraordinary from ordinary. "

In other words, it takes 10,000 hours to become an expert in a certain field. That is to say, if you work eight hours a day and five days a week, it will take at least five years to become an expert in a certain field.

10000 hour rule example

Da Vinci began to practice drawing eggs when he was a teacher. Day after day, year after year, he practiced for at least 10,000 hours with different angles and different lighting, and laid a solid foundation, which led to the world famous paintings's Mona Lisa and The Last Supper.

Liu Xiang, the flying man in the field, only saw him galloping on the field, riding the dust, but for his glory in the field 10 seconds, he has been practicing hard since he was seven 19 years. I don't know how many hours he ran, how many tons of sweat he sweated, and how many setbacks and failures he experienced before he got the phrase "after the rain cleared up."

10000 hour error

① Simple repetition

Many people's so-called 65,438+00,000 hours are just repeating simple work and keeping pace along the track they are already familiar with. This is why we say that some people think they have 10 years of work experience, but in fact they are just repeating 10 years of work experience.

In the comfort zone, let alone 10000 hours, even 100000 hours is useless.

In other words, internship in the study area is a very strong requirement. Once you have learned a thing, you should not continue to spend time on it, you should immediately move on to the next difficulty. Training in this way for a long time is bound to get twice the result with half the effort.

② Habitual failure

We have known since childhood that Edison invented the light bulb after 1600 failures, and we have understood the truth that "failure is the mother of success" since childhood, so we always fantasize that we can be as successful as Edison as long as we fail more.

However, we have overlooked that Edison experienced more than 1600 failures, replaced more than 1600 materials, found a suitable filament material, and finally invented the electric lamp. However, most of us expect to use the same materials. After thousands of failures, we can develop electric lights.

Simply repeating the failure, but never thinking about the reasons for the failure, even if it takes 10000 hours, it will not be effective.

③ There is no accumulation effect.

10000 hours of efforts need to have cumulative effects, and the final efforts should make full use of the achievements of the previous efforts instead of starting from scratch every time.

Just like when we are at work, we will pass when we encounter problems. When we encounter the same problem again, we simply can't remember how we solved it last time, so we have to spend a lot of time doing it again.

Therefore, there are too many factors related to success. This formula is not simply copied: genius = talent+self-control+deliberate practice+concentration+10000 hours. Instead: success = talent × self-control × deliberate practice × concentration × 10000 hours.