After 15 years of practice..
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After 15 years of practice..
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Re: After 15 years of practice..
#2Everyone starts at different aptitudes, but it's hard work that makes up the difference.
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#3Interestingly, if you multiply 15 years by 365 days and the two hours a day mentioned at some point in the article, you get 10,950 hours, which is remarkably close to Malcolm Gladwell's claim from the book Outliers that it takes 10,000 hours to become a superstar at something.
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#4Everyone starts at different aptitudes, but it's hard work that makes up the difference.
No matter where you start, you have to work really hard to become the best. Though it's a bit overused, the quote "Winners never quit, and quitters never win" does actually have a point: Never give up.
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#5I've actually found that pitch and rhythm issues like this often come not from a lack of ability, but from a phenomenon where the person hears what they intend to hear, rather than what they're actually singing/playing.
Extremely focused, repeated work with a tape recorder will bridge the gap between perception and reality in a hurry.
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#6When people say "X is a gift, you were lucky to be born with it", they're probably trying to give themselves an excuse to not put in the effort needed to get good at that thing.
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#7Note how people went straight from assuming he "just didn't have singing ability" to "you're lucky to be born with singing ability"
It's suprising how often years of hard work is trivialized as "luck" or "inherent ability".
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#8He's really good. http://sivers.org/mp3/DEREK_SIVERS-Ready_to_Live-1997-01.mp3
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#9When people say "X is a gift, you were lucky to be born with it", they're probably trying to give themselves an excuse to not put in the effort needed to get good at that thing.
And at the same time, for many people it's an insidious way to reduce other people's accomplishments so that they don't feel inferior in comparison.
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#10When people say "X is a gift, you were lucky to be born with it", they're probably trying to give themselves an excuse to not put in the effort needed to get good at that thing.
And at the same time, for many people it's an insidious way to reduce other people's accomplishments so that they don't feel inferior in comparison.
Maybe, but I don't think that most people who say this are trying to belittle their idol, rather complement them on the fact that they have a greater skill than others. That no matter how much time someone else puts into it, they will never be as good.
And there is some truth to this. You are born a good jocky, most people couldn't train hard to be that small.