Sunday, January 1, 2017
The 10,000-Hour Rule
This book provides a different perspective on many different things like success and who it is determined. I believe students should be given the opportunity to read more books like these because they give a different meaning of what real success is rather than what people think is success but really isn’t like getting a job or going to college. Those things do help you go somewhere in life, but if you don’t have “innate talent”, it can be very hard for you to achieve success. Now sometimes even if someone is granted with innate talents, they still need practice to achieve not perfection, but something very close to that. Even though there are some people who don’t have innate talents for something, I believe that if they put in the some amount of dedication and time into what they are doing, they can match or even surpass someone who has innate talents. I know sometimes when I watch sports players who have just completed, they go on a say that many people told them that they could not achieve what they are going today, but with practice and guidance those sports players were able to not only prove their critics wrong, but impact others of were told that they could not do it because of how tall, athletic, or skilled they were at the sport. I chose this chapter because some people believe that success comes to you if you do some work. But in reality if you really want to have success hard work and dedication is required.
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I also believe this chapter specifically emphasized the need to practice and like you said, put hard work and dedication into the particular profession or activity you want to succeed in. This book also stresses the fact that innate talent can give you sort of a head-start in something but that doesn't necessarily mean that someone with innate talent doesn't need to work hard. The book defiantly shaped by meaning and outlook on the idea of success. I always have associated someone who is successful based on their career or education but I've come to realize that one's success also reflects something as simple as the opportunities they were given.
ReplyDeleteI agree with you that this book provides a different perspective to success. I always knew that success took hard work, but I never really realized how many factors play in success such as culture, opportunities, etc. I also do agree that we should read more books like this. I don't necessarily recommend that we read more books like this in school per say, but I think reading it on one's own time is definitely something that I highly recommend.
ReplyDeleteI agree with you that this book provides a different perspective to success. I always knew that success took hard work, but I never really realized how many factors play in success such as culture, opportunities, etc. I also do agree that we should read more books like this. I don't necessarily recommend that we read more books like this in school per say, but I think reading it on one's own time is definitely something that I highly recommend.
ReplyDeleteI agree with the both of you. Time and effort distinguish those who are most likely to succeed from those who are less likely. Gladwell emphasizes how innate talent can also give one a "head start," however, this talent has little value if there is no hard work to create a real foundation for that person's career. I do, however, believe that luck can make a big difference in someone's career. If two people work just as hard towards the same goal and one becomes more successful than the other, it is most likely due to chance or opportunity. Some may have different perspectives about this, but I do agree that no one can achieve a goal without putting in the work first.
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