Becoming an expert

Love this: "The only way a kid is going to practice is if it's total fun for him... and it was for me." - Wayne Gretzky.

The popularity of the '10,000 hours of practice to become an expert' idea is on the rise. This is not an hour of practice repeated 10,000 times. It is 10,000 hours of increasingly difficult tasks. To practice this much it not only needs to be “total fun” for a child, but it also needs to be “total fun” for adults. To become an expert, practice every day without fail:

• One hour per day requires 27 years 139 days to become an expert
• Two hours per day requires 13 years 252 days to become an expert
• Three hours per day requires 9 years 46 days to become an expert
• Four hours per day requires 6 years 308 days to become an expert

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