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Guy on a podcast claimed you need 10,000 hours to get good at anything and I finally looked up where that number actually comes from
It traces back to a 1993 study of violinists at a Berlin music school, and the researcher himself has said in interviews that the 10,000 figure was never meant as a rule, just an average for one elite group. The original paper also showed huge variation, some top players logged way fewer hours than others. So why does this number still get repeated like it is science, and what bad advice did it talk you into?
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leor861d ago
That "just an average for one elite group" part is the whole thing and people always skip it. Honestly it reminds me of when I got into sourdough during lockdown. Some guy on YouTube said you gotta bake a loaf every single day for a year to get decent. I did maybe 15 loaves over four months, and by loaf 12 it was actually good bread. Turned out the daily thing was just what worked for that one guy who had a ton of free time. Same with guitar, my buddy played maybe 30 minutes a day for two years and he's way better than a guy I know who grinded for hours and quit. Ngl the hours are way less important than people want to admit.
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