“The Ten-Year Rule Of Mastery”

The world’s best golfers have spent about ten thousand hours on their golfing performance to become world-class at their game. The world’s best scientists have immersed themselves in their subject for about ten thousand hours, and that devotion has made them appear so brilliant. The world’s best artists have spent roughly ten thousand hours tightly concentrated on practicing their skills — and given that intensity of action, they reach the point where they play at genius.

So focus married with time produces mastery. We all have the ability to get to this seemingly unreachable place. Unfortunately, most of us not only disbelief we can, but we also fail to but in the time required to do so.

If more people understood how great they could be, businesses, communities, and nations — organizations of every type — would operate at vastly superior levels of performance. Now here’s the real thing: ten thousand hours in a normal life that involves sleeping and spending time with people and other such daily pursuits adds up to about ten years. So the ten-thousand-hour idea could just as easily be called the Ten-Year Rule. You really need to focus on the particular job you want mastery at for about ten years.

That’s the little-known formula for genuine world-class success: ten years of focused efforts and consistent practice. But how many people are willing to do that in this quick-fix world of ours? Everyone wants the rewards right now. Yet mastery takes time, effort, and patience. And too many among us just don’t make a commitment. Or they give up too early and then wonder why they never became a superstar in their work.

So just follow this Ten-Year Rule and put yourself on course for attaining mastery.

Good Luck!

~~Inspired by Robin Sharma🐾