The meaning of this rule: of the many studies, whatever area of life is involved!, it takes 10,000 hours of practice to achieve a level of skill commensurate with the status of a world-class expert.
How do you think poker is also part of this rule? Or still poker exception.
The best thing you can do is to spit in the face of that person who told you about such 10K hrs BS!
24 * 365 * 100 = 876K hours is 100 year life. You'll be sleeping 30% of this time. Will you live to 100 years? you will spend some % being young, studying, washing in the shower, dating, having sex, sitting or staying in the toilet, making food, staying in traffic and so on...
SO the question is - how much effective time is left?
10K hours will be really large % of that effective time.
About 17 years ago I've learned html in like 7 hours of one single day, learned Macromedia Flash during 3-4 days. Later on learned welding like professional using TIG/MIG/ARC techniques after spending time for ~15 video lessons 3-5 minutes each and practicing right after.
Sad truth of life #1: Society wants you to be stupid and predictable, because this is a method of artificial selection! Only few will realize that being stupid is a really bad option, and living by proposed rules is the worst choice.
Sad truth of life #2: Life is too short for any sort of BS, especially virtual BS which replaces important things. Such BS like: Holly/Bollywood movies, Soap operas, Video games, Funny pics/movies, Pornography are designed to feed your inner animal with trash, but they look nice, and people like it, without having a clue that such things demotivate them, and replace real things with virtual BS.
Just think about it: 3blns of people have watched some Avatar movie, it lasted 3 hours. They've spent 9bln human hours. 3 hours is small number for each individual, but for the whole planet is like 9bln / 876K hours(one 100 year life) = approx 1K human lives have been totally erased like they have never existed. And what kind of profit you're getting after spending 3hrs watching Avatar? Have you learned something new that will help you to evolve and live a better life or you've just killed some time?
Sad truth of life #3: You must quit "killing time", it's impossible. One thing for sure - Time will kill You.
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