In this book, the author starts with sports, music and other fields, proving the fact that the importance of talents is overestimated by people. The author shows that success is the result of long-term deliberate practice without exception, and this principle can be applied to any field.
Through the analysis of a large number of cases, the author explains how the genius and talent in people's hearts are cultivated through the 10 thousand hour law.
Case 1 Sports "Talent": The author puts forward his own opinions and recalls the process from childhood practice to becoming a world-famous table tennis player. When Matthew was 3 years old, his parents bought Matthew and his brother Andrew a bright ping-pong table as toys. In this way, Matthew and his brother Andrew practiced for thousands of hours in a pleasant play. The physical education teacher in primary school is a former national table tennis coach. The PE teacher found that little Matthew's table tennis skills were better than his peers, so he recruited Matthew and his 9-year-old brother to join the club. This table tennis club is open 24 hours a day. Matthew and his brother practice after school, before school, on weekends and holidays. After that, like this time, Matthew always stands out among his peers, because his accumulated time of practicing table tennis is much longer than his peers. Finally became the British table tennis champion.
Case 2: Musical "Talent": The average time for the best violinist to practice before the age of 20 has reached 10000 hours, which is 2000 hours more than that of a good player and 6000 hours more than that of a player who wants to be a music teacher. Further research shows that the early musical talent of top violinists stems from the extra tutoring provided by their parents at home. From quantitative change to qualitative change, it is enough to make them superior and be mistaken for talents.
Case 3 Math "Talent": Please try to remember 1 1 letter (never give up) and "never give up", so it is easy to write it down. Why? Because the order of these letters is familiar to everyone. Similarly, chess and mental arithmetic masters encode and group chess pieces or numbers in the same way. This skill comes from familiarity with these codes and chunks, and has nothing to do with talent.
These cases are telling people that remarkable achievements have been made in practice. And "ten years" or "ten thousand hours" is the necessary time to acquire professional knowledge in any complex field and become an expert. However, the road to Excellence is difficult. How can we actively overcome these difficulties? Purpose. The author describes the process of economics books in his own words-"With the deepening of my research on economic models, there will be some complicated concepts that I need to read several times to understand. Sometimes I struggle for a week and still don't understand. But it doesn't matter, I have been moving forward, and difficulties can't stop me, because my goal-a deep understanding of economic knowledge-is what I want in my heart. "