10000 Hours

Time Isn’t Everything

Garth Beyer

I could blog everyday for 5 years and still not get anywhere. You could spend 10 years on artwork and never get a chance to showcase it in a gallery. Your friend can spend his 20s fixing cars, but never get a tip. Gladwell’s idea you must spend at least 10,000 hours on something before you become a professional is incomplete. It’s not really the time the matters. It’s the bravery, the risk, the new things you try during that time.

Turns out 10,000 hours is enough time to try as many options, take as many risks and show as much bravery as it takes to truly get noticed, recognized and respected for your effort.

Time isn’t everything. Grit is.

 

Stay Positive & Start Impressing Yourself With The Work You Do

Breaking The Threshold

Garth Beyer

Many believe that if they deliver enough work, put in enough hours, or make enough sales calls that they will break the threshold and become a star. This is commonly referred to as Gladwell’s 10,000 hours of practice theory: you are considered a true professional when you have put in 10,000 hours of your passion. That’s when you truly break through.

I would like to propose a different concept. It’s more often than not that the number of critics you have equally relates to your degree of success, of breaking the threshold.

Sometimes no news is good news, but in the realm of people talking about your art, just that people are talking about it benefits you. This includes the critics. It includes the complainers. It includes the hasslers.

You don’t break the threshold, your critics do.

 

Stay Positive & Go Get Some Critics

Garth E. Beyer