Malcolm Gladwell, author of Blink and The Tipping Point, suggests that culture, luck, and 10,000 hours are the key criteria to be successful.
Not happiness, mind you. Success.
10,000 hours at 24 hours a day means 416.66 days. That's 1 year and 51 days of NONSTOP focus and practice (or 9.15 YEARS at 3 hours a day) to become successful at something. Flying a plane. Mountain biking. Writing. Photography. Playing guitar. Designing fashion. Marketing. Software development. Making beer. Calligraphy.
Me? I have the attention span of a gnat. I like to sample. I like to nibble. A little of this, a little of that. OK, I'm moving on.
This may be why I'm not the master of something. Yet.
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