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14-11-12, 08:19 PM | #1 |
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The 10 year rule
No, it's not like the 5 second rule where you are allowed to drop a Cornetto onto a steaming cow pat and pick it up and eat it, so long as you do it within 5 seconds. No, it's not that. I'm talking about the 10 year rule.
The 10 year rule (or 10,000 hour rule) states you can completely master something in 10 years. I saw a cartoon a while back which illustrated it really nicely and broke it down, showing someone can have a good 7 life times and master 7 different things if they apply themselves. It's completely possible to die having produced several brilliant paintings, recorded an album, built a motorbike from scratch, got your pilots license, and maybe perfected a few foreign languages. I find this really inspiring. If I choose a craft now (within my IQ ... I'm not going to choose particle physics), and practice at it day in day out, in 10 years I could be a master at it. I've never painted before but I could pick up some water colours and a canvas tomorrow and start my quest to paint an amazing landscape by the time I'm 40. Or I could take up a martial art and be a completely lethal ninja. All it takes is practice. So the question is, what would you really like to be a master at in 10 years time? Maybe you can motivate yourself to start now.
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14-11-12, 08:29 PM | #2 |
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Re: The 10 year rule
I would love to be a Wing Chun master....or maybe a master horse whisperer
Thats never going to happen! So, I'll stick with riding a bike, only got two more years left
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14-11-12, 08:33 PM | #3 |
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Re: The 10 year rule
getting a relationship right
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14-11-12, 08:34 PM | #4 |
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Re: The 10 year rule
a master of myself
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14-11-12, 08:35 PM | #5 |
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Re: The 10 year rule
No.
You can master some things but a guy with no arms is never going to master the piano. I believe you could spend 10 years and become an artist in the sense that you could make accurate renditions of still life's, but not that you could become an amazing painter like the great masters. |
14-11-12, 08:36 PM | #6 |
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Or a motorcycle control expert who is a ninja also. I can whisper to horses now btw, it's easy. |
14-11-12, 08:37 PM | #7 |
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Just think how good I'll be on a bike in ten years if that's really true!
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14-11-12, 08:38 PM | #9 |
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Well I passed my bike test 5 years ago so I must be half way to becoming a motorbike gp rider
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14-11-12, 08:40 PM | #10 |
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then u get older and slower and your reflexes dissapear up ur jacksie
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