Does Success Really Require 10,000 Hours?

Being in marketing or business today means applying at least 10,000 hours to adaptation. What are your thoughts on the 10,000-Hour Rule?

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Tom Bilyeu is the co-founder of 2014 Inc. 500 company Quest Nutrition — a unicorn startup valued at over $1 billion — and the co-founder and host of Impact Theory. Impact Theory is a first-of-its-kind company designed to facilitate global change through the incubation of mission-based businesses and the cultivation of empowering content. Every piece of content Impact Theory creates is meant to underscore the company mission to free people from The Matrix and help them unlock their true potential. Impact Theory exists to inspire the next generation of game-changing companies and creators that will make a true and lasting impact on the world.

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[ezzaaa]

The 10, 000 hour rule focuses attention on the outcome and the result, rather than the process.

The rule is arbitrary - much like 1000 true fans - and doesn't hold much value for me personally. Many have put in 10, 000 hours into their jobs but would not be classed as masters, competent perhaps, but masters? There are very few.

When you're obsessed with what you do, whether it's 10, 000, 20, 000 or 30, 000 hours, who gives a fuck? It's a constant and never ending process of improvement, there isn't a final destination and journey where you've made it and you suddenly stop because that's when you start dying!

At the end of the day it's not how much hours you've put in, it's what you do with those hours that matter. Are you deliberately practicing your craft and the things that you suck at? Are you adapting and improving? Or are you practicing mindlessly and repeating the things that you're already good at and that make you feel good...

That's what separates professionals from amateurs - not 10, 000 hours.

[amerok]

"Adaptation. Improvisation. But your weakness is not your technique."

[carlberryman]

Thank you fo this, Tom. So True that we need to apply this to constant adaptation. More importantly, I wanted to thank you for being an incredible inspiration in my life. I first learned about you through your interview with Tony Robbins, then saw the interview you did with Simon Sinek and most recently the amazing interview you did with one of my hardcore mentors, Mike Dillard. Needless to say, you're the fuckin' man Tom. Love your passion, mission and what you've been able to allow to come through you and be shared with the world. A million thanks as you have and continue to inspire me to fulfill my mission, which is to inspire the dreams of humanity through the living of my own. Love you bro!

[arande]

Is the muffled lav audio part of your brand or something? Lol