Cheat the 10,000 Hour Rule

Have you read about the 10,000 hour rule, that you need to spend 10,000 hours before you can be considered an expert? It may not be true.

Some of you may have just recently discovered your passion.  It’s burning in your belly and you want to get good at it quick.  Well, here’s a little observation buried in the 2nd chapter of Outliers. This passage talks about results of investigating how much time it took for pianists to attain their expertise…

“In fact, by the age of twenty, the elite performers had each totaled ten thousand hours of practice.  By contrast, the merely good students had totaled eight thousand hours, and the future music teachers had totaled just four thousand hours”

See that? Just 4,000 hours is all that needed for “teacher” status.  Here’s some cold hard truth for you…your audience just needs a teacher. Get to this level first and you’ll attract a huge audience along the way.

That’s 4,000 hours, which you’ve probably already invested.

In case you haven’t here are some tips to get you jumpstarted:

Read the entire article at:
http://pushingsocial.com/7-ways-to-cheat-the-10000-hour-rule-and-still-be-a-better-blogger

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