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A little food for thought...
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In my business tech class, we're working on powerpoints with the top ten tips in your mind that make your presentation better, using tips from another powerpoint about Steve Jobs. I happened to come across this little fact... (copied and pasted straight from the .ppt)
Steve Jobs is not a natural. He works at it. Malcolm Gladwell writes in Outliers that people at the very top don’t work harder than everyone else. They work much, much harder. In fact, Gladwell quotes neuroscientists who believe that 10,000 hours of practice is required to become world class at a particular skill--whether it’s surgery, shooting baskets, or public speaking.
So, if this statistic is right, we should all become Tom Wallisches in our own state after 10000 hours of skiing, or that of any other skill. What are your thoughts on this? I honestly think it depends on the person who is doing it, and how much practice they will need will depend on the type of person who is trying to become world class.
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can't be true. some people just aren't meant for some things. no point in trying to make yourself mediocre at something you're bad at, just get better at the things you are good at.
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i have probably skied that much in my life... where's my olympic gold
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whoa i just read that outliers book your talkig about...theres a cool segment about how most professional hockey players are born jan-march beacuse of the cut-off dates in sports age groupings when kids are young..pretty interesting
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all about motivation devotion and whats in your head.
Fun fact: professional divers (may be other sports, but this was the example) spend a week thinking about a new dive; how its thrown, the rotation, etc for a week straight, and after that week first try they nail it. cool right.
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yeah you got to have a gift for it
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You made me think about how hungry I was.
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Say you ski a ten hour day. That's still 1000 days. Assuming that you start from your early teen years (12-13) and ski 20 days a season, with the right facilities, that would still take until your 17-18 just to get to 1000 hours. Yeah, you're not Olympic material yet...
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15 minutes until lunch for me PJ ^.^
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started when i was 3-4. i'm almost 15 now. including summer setup and my 44 day season so far, i'd say i've got a few thousand.
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I'd say you lose all credibility because you're "almost 15".
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I wouldn't exactly count when you were four/five, maybe starting when you were eight or something. Summer setup is iffy as counting for hours (I have one too, I still wouldn't really count it as progressing) so maybe count half/a quarter of summer stuff? And you are fucking lucky if you can ski 44 days in a season, I have about 25 and I can't afford gas anymore.
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Looks like any amount of practice or expertise won't save you from pancreatic cancer. Sad.
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i heard that before.
the beatles apparently worked 2x as much as any other group. so like 20,000 hours and thats why they are so amazing.
oh and perfect practice makes perfect... if you do something wrong for your 10,000 hours... then you will not have it perfect. like if you spin wrong over and over, you wont be good at it, you will still have the bad technique. and like practicing a bad golf swing... it wont be amazing once you practice a lot. think about that when ur practicing. hope tht makes sense
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honestly, you can get alot of shit done on a summer setup. and yea, i live 10 minutes away from my home mountain and harass my friends for rides. 44 is pretty good for the short and unpredictable east coast winters, and my season ain't even done
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i feel like at age 14 you cant really claim to have a few thousand hours skiing...
but maybe thats just me
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maybe i'm just really exaggerating and the number is a lot lower. i bet i have close to 5 or 6 hundred of strictly park skiing, i really started at the beginning of last year. yea a few thousand is pretty high
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hehe
I'm making bacon, homefries, and eggs at home right meow. woot
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i dont think you can get amazingly good at something just by practicing a lot. some of you are saying that you need some type of foundation first, like a gift or skill or talent in that domain to be good, however i dont agree with that. i think that to be really good at something, you dont need a special talent or knack for it, you just need passion and motivation. you just really need to love what youre doing. that, coupled with hours upon hours of practice, is a real recipe for success.
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It's crazy what practice can make you do.
I can play almost any guitar chord without thinking about it, just cuz of practice.
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Im going to have to agree
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Exactly. Things like guitar and such could be done, but what about things physically? It says that basketball is do-able in the quote, but what if you just suck, like me?
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say you practice 2000 hours of dribbling, another 1000 of dribbling while moving, 2000 of shooting...you still have 5000 hours to put together your new developed and honed skills to play the game of basketball. dribbling, shooting, passing...if you were to hammer out smaller aspects of the sport, you can put those together and become better at it..i guess
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