Take out 10,000 hours

How many times have you said to yourself, "Hey, I don't think I have talent, or forget it." This sentence is usually used as a pause to declare a complete failure of an effort. Is talent so important?

A cellist who is known as a musical child prodigy and has achieved considerable success in music when he grows up, he denies that he is a genius. In his success, what percentage of talent is it? "I think, 20% is not enough... However, among the 20%, my mother who forced me to learn the piano since I was young and didn't let me go out to play probably contributed more than 15%." Talent really varies from person to person. But we often overestimate its influence.

A gardening expert pointed at a bonsai that was almost angry and said to me: "The last time I came here, this bamboo was still alive. The care of plants and learning have the same reason: if you take time to take care of it every day, it It will grow very well; if you neglect it for a few days, it will appear disastrous. The more you look at it, the more you feel sorry for it. The more you look down on it, the more you don't want to look at it. Soon, it will be a life. "How many things have changed the direction of our lives, because this kind of reason for "the more ruined and abyssed" is a fate?

I also have a tendency to be an anticlimax. Let's take the Japanese language training in college. At the beginning, in addition to class, I also took a tutorial class and bought various textbooks. Roommates read half an hour every morning, I read more than an hour and a half more than her. However, her "half an hour every day" lasted for 4 years, until she was admitted to Japan to study abroad, but it has not stopped. My two-hour effort every day is constantly being disturbed by "outings, barbecue, love and dozing". In a month, "I will die before I die," and then tell myself: "Forget it, I see that I don't have the talent to learn Japanese."

Psychology professor Mike Hou Wei specializes in prodigy and genius. He has calculated that, in the case of piano learning, if you want to become a good amateur pianist, you need to concentrate on 3,000 hours of training. If you want to become a professional, 10,000 hours is indispensable.

From this point of view, our small setbacks are not without talent, but without persistence.