The 10,000-Hour Rule Explained

To start out I would like to point out that I found this book to be amazingly well written, and truly made me think about the different perspectives of success and how to achieve it. Outliers, by Malcolm Gladwell, talks about success, a very intriguing topic in my opinion. Out of all the perspectives Gladwell depicts of how to achieve success, “The 10,000-Hour Rule” is seemingly my favorite. In this chapter, Gladwell points that "The emerging picture from such studies is that ten thousand hours of practice is required to achieve the level of mastery associated with being a world-class expert-in anything"(Gladwell 40). With this, he also provides examples that Mozart and the Beatles practiced for 10,000 and more which is equivalent to years. Although bringing up these examples may result in the reader being well surprised, this fact, I believe was implemented by Gladwell to show that success is not always something that happens overnight or that happens in a year, sometimes the most successful take years to achieve that success, but what it truly takes at the end of the day is commitment and dedication. I personally believe that success is something one achieves by putting their mind to it, if one commits and puts all their effort into completing a goal, they will achieve it no matter how long it may take. This is the idea Gladwell is trying to convey in “The 10,000-Hour Rule” and I completely agree.