A much-touted theory suggests that practicing any
skill for 10,000 hours is sufficient to make you an expert. No innate talent?
Not a problem. You just practice. But is it true?
One man
who decided to test it is Dan McLaughlin, 34, a former commercial photographer
from Portland, Oregon.
"The
idea came in 2009. I was visiting my brother and we decided to play a par
three, nine-hole course," he says. "I had never really been on a golf
course and went out and shot a 57, which is horrible. It's 30 over par on an
easy nine-hole course."
Far
from being discouraged by his apparent lack of any natural talent for golf, Dan
and his brother started talking about what it would take to become a
professional golfer. Dan soon decided he wanted to try.
Many experts
suggest that there is a specific number of hours to learn a sport. In this case
a photographer, who didn’t played before golf tried to become a professional golfer,
finally he achieve it approximately after 10.000 playing golf. Once a musician
made an experiment, he observed two little children with the same age (5). Both
without any apparent talent to play the violin, at the age of eighteen, one had
practiced 10.000 hours and he played as an expert but the other one, with just
4.000 hours practiced didn’t play as good as the other one, but there was a big
difference between them. The big musician concluded that in a certain number of
hours we make a big change for the better.
In my opinion it can be true but I think that
they have to make clear which kind of training is useful because training
without an expert supervision can cause injuries and bad habits in the sport technique.
Much-touted
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