Outliers:The Opportunity (Part II)

Okay, presumably from the title of this posting, it is to be understood that this is a continuation from the previous posting of the Outliers posting:The Opportunity. We, now, understood that the succesful outliers do not primarily depend on one's individual innate talent in excelling or achieving mastery yet rather a result of "opportunity" which led these individuals cultivating hours and hours of hardwork and practice in sharpening paricular skills, 10,000 hours.

What implication does it have to us?

The most obvious one would be the way we would perceive outliers. Perhaps no longer do we fall un to false admiration to these outliers as such perceiving God plays unfair rule by inseminating more gifts un to some people but not others. Rather, we appreciate the hardwork and time spent in carving such a exceptional skills in these outliers.

Now, if we look at the number of hours put 10,000 hours, it is natural to think that such dedication is not possesed by Tom, Dick and Harry. 10,000 hours of practice that spans through out one sixth, on average, of one's lifetime if the average age is to be taken as sixty and if it is assumed that each year one-thousand hours are invested in developing one particular talent. It involves unconditional dedication that demands nothing in return. A pure devotion of self-indulgence into practices and learnings. Such situation only possible when the person is devoting himself entirely like when one is in love. Total devotion translates to hours and hours of practices and learnings.