10,000 Hours
Thursday, January 8, 2009 at 06:34PM According to Malcolm Gladwell in his new book Outliers, there is a 10,000-Hour Rule. This rule states that it takes 10,000 hours of hard work and practice before a person can become extremely successful in his or her chosen field.
He says that there is no such thing as an "innate genius" which carries the most successful people to the top.
"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," writes neurologist Daniel Levitin. "In study after study, of composers, basketball players, fiction writers, ice skaters, concert pianists, chess players, master criminals, and what have you, this number comes up again and again." (Page 40)
Even Mozart, Gladwell declares, despite composing at an unreal early age, never wrote music at the genius level until he actually put in his 10,000 hours.
Computing the time I have spent in practice as a chiropractor, I come up with this:
10 years and 5 months have passed since I have graduated from chiropractic college. At a conservative estimate of 150 hours a month devoted to spinal adjusting, the time I have devoted to my profession comes to a total of 19,050 hours!
I've put in the time. And this is good to know.
And here's another interesting computation. With another conservative estimate of an average of 7 patients adjusted each hour over the 19,050 hours, I conclude that I have been privlege of giving 133,350 adjustments, give or take.
So far.
I'd like to hit a million before I die.
Reader Comments (1)
That is awesome Reed. Keep going at the rate you are, I'm sure you'll reach your goal, and maybe then some, cause your still very young. I wonder how many hours I'm at in being a mother of three. haha!! I guess there is no total if your counting eternity!!!