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10,000 hours of deliberate practice are needed to become world-class in any field. Could you tell the difference between someone who’d never touched a piano before and someone who’ve had 100 hours of lessons and practice? Someone who’s spent 100 hours learning about economics or nutrition or art history will seem impressively knowledgeable to someone who’s never studied that topic. If you do something for 3 hours every day, it will take you 3333 days to complete 10,000 hours, which is a little over 9 years. A decade is the time required for a professional or career to fully mature and ripen.

It’s the same amount of time a bodybuilder requires to build a fully developed mature physique. The 100-hour rule can quickly help you secure a new job in a field you knew nothing about before putting in the 100 hours. If you want to be a good cook and not a master chef then 100 hours is enough. Make a list of things you would like to feel competent and confident about and plan a calendar that lets you slowly but surely put the required 100 hours into them. 1 hour a day and you can complete 100 hours in a little over 3 months.

To achieve world-class status in any field, 10,000 hours of purposeful practice are required. CodingVC, for example, has recommended a 100-hour rule. For most fields, being proficient requires only one hundred hours of active study. Your first 100 hours of learning are similar to the game of Snakes and Ladders; each ladder is the help, which relieves you of the troubles and speeds up your learning process. One of the most difficult challenges that a novice confronts throughout the first 100 hours of studying is a lack of discipline. 90% people oscillate in the early stages of learning. You start with lots of motivation & enthusiasm dreaming about your goal, but slowly your goal starts fading away and you lose your inspirations. Then comes the time when you are only left with depression, dragging yourself with the burden of commitment which you have made earlier.

Without competent supervision, the time and effort necessary in this procedure prevents them from progressing and implementing initiatives. These are some of the top three obstacles that every learner must face in order to succeed in their professional journey, ranging from a lack of discipline to choosing the right path for your learning.

If you dedicate 10 hours per week to any given topic or skill, in 10 weeks’ time you’ll be at a totally different level from where you are now.

Then just as the rate of learning starts to drop off, you can switch to a different subject.

For anyone with jack-of-all-trades tendencies, this is a bit of a life hack.

The 100-hour rule can quickly help you secure a new job in a field you knew nothing about before putting in the 100 hours.

If you want to be a good cook and not a master chef then 100 hours is enough.

Make a list of things you would like to feel competent and confident about and plan a calendar that lets you slowly but surely put the required 100 hours into them.