By : Elsa
Hello, El here.
It's been a long time since I last greeted you. I hope you are well. I've been having a few mood swings lately that's kept me out of focus; I hope that doesn't happen to you. Usually, in a month, I can finish 2 to 3 books for me to read, but until the middle of this month, I even spent one chapter of the book I was reading.
I bought this book more than six months ago, but I haven't had time to read it because of my other list. I bought it on the recommendation of a former host on a private TV station that I often watch. He has a YouTube channel with two of his friends. On their YouTube channel, they discussed recommended book recommendations to read, and I was interested in one book title, Outliers. Outliers were written by Malcolm Gladwell, the same author of The Tipping Point and Blink.
Overview of Outliers books are books that tell stories with facts that will change how we understand success. I haven't finished my reading thoroughly. I've only read one of the ten chapters that exist with the addition of a few pages to the second chapter I've read. However, I stopped when I entered the third page of chapter two. As I read a few sentences in it, my brain suddenly reacted by linking one incident to another, and I couldn't continue my reading until I satisfied my wandering mind.
In chapter 2, with the subtitle The 10,000 Hour Rule, a sentence states that the closer psychologists examine the careers of the gifted, the less likely the role of innate talent is and the more significant the part of the practice. This book states that research conducted by K. Anders Ericsson, a psychologist, and his colleagues compared amateur and professional piano players. His study found a similar pattern at the Academy of Music about violinists divided into three groups. In his research on amateur and professional piano players, it was found that amateur piano players at the age of children practiced no more than 3 hours per week. By the age of twenty, they had practiced about two thousand hours. Professionals, on the other hand, increase their training time every year, and by the age of twenty, they have practiced ten thousand hours.
And, interestingly Ericsson and colleagues did not find 'natural musicians' but rather 'hard workers.' A person who practices more diligently, his talent will be honed to become a professional. Still, even if someone has extraordinary talent but does not practice, his talent is nothing. Like a saying, 'hard work will not betray the results.’ Success is not born instantly; of course, there is a forging practice in achieving it.
I became connected with the concept of this practice in my life, and when I was in high school, I majored in Natural Sciences with two math subjects, one compulsory math, and the other special math. I practice every day by doing math problems. Even when there are assignments, I will increase my study hours to get good grades and understand the material. However, in physical education lessons in the swimming section, I got the lowest score. After reviewing it, it turned out that because I did not practice optimally in swimming in 12 years of learning physical education, I still could not swim.
The same thing I found in language, speaking English is not a talent. Still, we need continuous practice with additional practice time to become a professional.
See you in my following writing!
