The 10, 000 hour rule is archaic and limiting, and its belief is cancerous to society
Studying how I learn and how I master skills and achieve mastery has been the greatest thing I’ve ever done in my life
What I discovered is that learning isn’t related to how much time u spend, it’s related to your system and structure of storing information, organizing that information in order to take action, taking action and reiterating your process over and over again for maximum efficiency
The 10, 000 hr rule often neglects this process and generalizes it into this feel good “work ethic” “do more” motivation craze
The 10, 000 hr rule assumes everything is fair
And quite frankly I have to agree it does somewhat apply and it does have a valid argument on Athletics…
But even moreso with athletics, great coaching and training play a crucial role…
Take for ex. LeBron James… dude is 38 having a season better than his Prime, playing against 26 year olds in a sport where the average NBA player retires in 5 years.
He has unfair access to medical and recovery process unknown before. That allows him to play well at 38… Insane
When you look at history and the development of processes as a whole…
It makes no sense that it has to take you 10K hrs to achieve the same level in the same time as the people before you…
We have this romance with working hard and spending super long hours…
Like in my case In University I studied for like 2-3 hrs max for a test, got like 90-95%, while ppl would study for like 20 hrs and get a B
Im not smarter… my process was just unfairly better.
Thats our super power as humans… we’re able to reiterate and improve upon existing processes.
AI is not able to create ideas out of thin air, it needs data…
We don’t need data.
just some thoughts