10,000 Hours Rule
- If you want to have a world class expertise on something, spend atleast 10,000 hours working on it. Be obsessed.
- With this rule, you can be anything you want, but you have to put in the hard work. If your teammate stops training by 10 pm you stop at 12 pm. If you want to double your income, you double your value.
- Often, when people try something new like learning to play the guitar, they easily see progress. Now after some time when they start to plateau, they either quit or push themselves harder to improve. Which do you want to be?
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