After interviewing athletes, musicians, teachers and others for hundreds of times, Professor Angela came to a conclusion:
Talent × effort = skill
Skill × effort = achievement
Daniel coyle and Malcolm Gradwell, American best-selling writers, respectively demonstrated that "65438+100000 hours of practice is the only way to success" in their books "The Theory of Genius" and "Alien".
Anders Eriksson, a psychologist at Florida State University, also proved this conclusion. In the book "Deliberate Practice", he devoted himself to a series of experts in industries and fields such as chess masters, top violinists, sports stars, memory masters, spelling champions and outstanding doctors, and found that:
The achievement of genius does not depend on talent, because most of them are ordinary people. Their success mainly comes from "correct practice"-the so-called "expert level", which is the result of gradual training, and thus the concept of "deliberate practice" is put forward.
In fact, both deliberate practice and 10000-hour law prove that effort is more important than talent, but more important than simple effort, concentrated effort is the key to success.
We have all learned the story "Da Vinci drew an egg" in textbooks. An ordinary egg shows different states from different angles under different light. By observing these subtle changes and years of practice, Leonardo da Vinci laid a solid foundation and finally achieved the world famous paintings's The Last Supper and Mona Lisa.
Liu, a "fat man who doesn't know table tennis", began to contact table tennis at the age of six. In daily training, he is strict with every movement. Even if his arm is swollen and his shoulder is hurt, he will continue to practice with a painful swing. The racket he used for practice, because of long-term wear and tear, has formed deep grooves and fingerprint pits.
Kobe Bryant is one of the best scorers in the NBA so far. Someone once asked Kobe, "Why are you so successful?" Kobe asked, "Do you know what Los Angeles is like at four in the morning?"
At four o'clock every morning, Kobe has already started a day of training, day after day, year after year. Compared with his teammates who started preparing for training at ten o'clock in the morning, Kobe has left them far behind with his own sweat.
How long is ten thousand hours?
In the early 1990s, Anders Eriksson, a Swedish psychologist, made a survey: most children who learn violin began to practice at the age of five. At first, everyone practiced for 2-3 hours a week, but after the age of 8, those students who performed well gradually increased their practice time; Nine years old, 6 hours a week; 12 years old, with an average of 8 hours per week; 14 years old, one week 16 hours; Until he was 20 years old, he practiced for more than 30 hours a week, * * * 10000 hours.
In the eyes of most of us ordinary people, these 10 thousand hours are boring, but if you think that those geniuses who are willing to spend 10 thousand hours training their skills enjoy it, you are all wet.
Because there is no concept of "entertainment" in deliberate practice, that is to say, even excellent geniuses have extremely boring and painful practice time. The only difference is that they can concentrate more on practice than ordinary people.
So, as Cory Shanahan, the author of Deep Growth, said:
"If we want to make progress, we need to concentrate. This can be done. Therefore, if you think that you can't reach the next professional level and realize your dreams, please reflect on your actual efforts to achieve this goal. "
After all, the road to success is not crowded, because not many people insist.