While most experts in their field have around 10 years of experience while some others who practiced the right way would have mastered the field in years.
The right kind of practice can go a long way in cutting the learning curve and making it easier and faster to become a master in a certain field. A great example of this is the famous world chess champion, Magnus Carlsen. Who at the age of 13 became the youngest grandmaster at the time.
While many other skilled grandmasters have been playing the game and studying chess theory for a long time, Magnus spent most of his time playing online against similarly rated players over the world. His practice and learning were more practical than theoretical. This is not to say that chess theory is not important but there is only so much you can learn and that knowledge is quite common amongst grandmasters.
Therefore in order to surpass someone in chess openings and theory one has to study much more since the current bar for chess knowledge amongst grandmasters is so high. Practical games and positions however are far more versatile and can lead to games that have never been recorded in the history of chess since there are so many moving pieces and possibilities. They interviewed three groups of 13 violinists rated as best, good, or less accomplished about their practice habits, before having them complete daily diaries of their activities over a week.
While the less skilful violinists clocked up an average of about 6, hours of practice by the age of 20, there was little to separate the good from the best musicians, with each logging an average of about 11, hours.
In all, the number of hours spent practising accounted for about a quarter of the skills difference across the three groups, according to the study published in Royal Society Open Science. Macnamara believes practice is less of a driver.
To complicate matters further, one factor can drive another. One man who decided to test it is Dan McLaughlin, 34, a former commercial photographer from Portland, Oregon. I was visiting my brother and we decided to play a par three, nine-hole course," he says. It's 30 over par on an easy nine-hole course.
Far from being discouraged by his apparent lack of any natural talent for golf, Dan and his brother started talking about what it would take to become a professional golfer. Dan soon decided he wanted to try. It highlighted the work of a group of psychologists in Berlin, who had studied the practice habits of violin students in childhood, adolescence and adulthood. All had begun playing at roughly five years of age with similar practice times. However, at age eight, practice times began to diverge.
By age 20, the elite performers had averaged more than 10, hours of practice each, while the less able performers had only done 4, hours of practice.
The psychologists didn't see any naturally gifted performers emerge and this surprised them. If natural talent had played a role it wouldn't have been unreasonable to expect gifted performers to emerge after, say, 5, hours. What are you letting get in the way of you work? Can you use willpower to remove what's preventing you from moving forward? In a TEDxPenn talk, behavioral scientist Katherine Milkman discusses "temptation bundling," a technique where you pair something you're trying to get yourself to do with an action you know you already enjoy.
While you tackle learning a new skill or hobby, avoid distracting things like your phone or even your work email, and instead put more enjoyment into the process.
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