Ten Thousand Hours

Practice isn't the thing you do once
you're good. It's the thing you do that makes you good.
The other interesting thing about that ten thousand 
hours, of course, is that ten thousand hours is an enormous amount of time. It's all but impossible to reach 
that number all by yourself by the time you're a young 
adult.

You have to have parents who encourage and support you. You can't be poor, because if you have to hold 
down a part-time job on the side to help make ends meet, 
there won't be time left in the day to practice enough. In 
fact, most people can reach that number only if they get 
into some kind of special program—like a hockey all-star 
squad—or if they get some kind of extraordinary opportunity that gives them a chance to put in those hours.

Culled from Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell

Abdulkareem,Taoheedah kehinde

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