Become a Professional!

           In the article “Outliers-10,000 Hours for Success”, it speaks about how if you want to be successful in what you do, you need to put 10,000 hours of practice into it. They give an example of the violinists from the Academy of Music in Berlin. After dividing the musicians into groups of the stars, the good, and the unlikely to go professional, they found out that the stars practiced 10,000 hours in their life, while the good practiced 8,000 and the others 4,000. One time I was watching a professional baseball game on television and the announcers said something similar to this. The announcers also said that you need 10,000 hours of practice throughout your life if you want to become a pro. My brother loves baseball and now he bases his future plans on that. If he wants to go far, then he will have to practice – a lot.

            I also read the “Myth of Multitasking” article. I feel like this can be directly related to the “10,000 hours for success” article. It says that multitasking is becoming more culturally acceptable. I can see it since everyone now a days is on a cell phone every time they do something else. Even now while I’m writing this I’m listening to music. Multitasking is everywhere you go, without even knowing. But does that mean the same for 10,000 hours of practice? Do the hours you practice while multitasking count towards you ultimate goal of 10,000? Or is it not as valuable as the hours you practice while not multitasking? I believe that it is not the same, you will get more out of something if that is the only thing you are focusing on at that particular time. I feel like switch tasking would be a more efficient way to get something done if you want to be good at both things you are doing.