Probably, each of us lives with his own ideas, plans, dreams, at best - achievements, at worst - learning from defeats, which is also not the worst case scenario. Immediately I want to draw attention to people who, it seems, at the first failures, run from difficulties and wait for the fall of happiness on the head.
Unfortunately, most of these people. Every day they look into your eyes, shake hands, and they give advice to someone, they are not able to help themselves. At the same time, someone is working on himself, improving his skills, someone hates his work and at the same time loves because he believes in the result. And what kind of people do you belong to?
For some reason, when we see a successful person, we must say that she has a talent, thanks to which he received recognition, fame and money. Quietly, deep down, we envy this person and move on to do what we have to, but we don’t invest in a bit of love or a crumb of our soul.
But, in the opinion of Malcolm Gladwela, a famous American journalist, not talent is the key to your success, but hard and tireless work on yourself, on what you love. In his book "Geniuses and Outsiders", the author proves his theory with several vivid examples.
Take into account at least Mozart. Here is what Gladuel writes about him: “Compared with the works of mature composers, Mozart’s early works are no different. There is a high probability that they were written by his father and were later corrected.
Many works by little Wolfgang, for example, the first seven concertos for piano and orchestra, are basically a compilation of works by other composers. From those concerts completely belonging to Mozart, the first outstanding concert was written by him at the age of twenty-one. By this time, Mozart had been making music for ten years. "
Rule 10,000 hours
So, even a great genius became great only after he gave something important and valuable to achieve his goal. Namely, the composer sacrificed his time. Let's give ourselves an honest and adequate answer to the question: "How much time are we ready to give to the cause, which we love, but which seems to us hopeless?" I think that a little, a maximum of 2-3 hours a week.
However, Malcolm Gladwel brings us a magic number that will ensure success for everyone, namely 10,000 hours. So, everyone can now roughly determine how many weeks, years, decades he has left to the glory of an artist, a writer, or even an outstanding mathematician or illusionist. The point is not that you can, but in the time that you are ready to devote to this business!
According to Gladuela theory, what we call talent, in fact, is a successful combination of skills, capabilities, and randomly granted benefits to a person. So, all that is needed: to find the business that is dear to the heart: do not spare time for something really important and significant; and find the strength to rise from their knees, to take every defeat as a good sign.
