I recently read a great article in Wine Spectator entitled 10,000 Hours by Matt Kramer. Essentially, the article talks about expertise. According to Daniel Levitin, cognitive psychologist and author of This Is Your Brain on Music, it takes approximately 10,000 hours to achieve expertise in any field.
“In study after study of composers, basketball players, fiction writers, ice skaters, concert pianists, chess players, master criminals, and what have you, this number comes up again and again. Ten thousand hours is the equivalent to roughly three hours a day, or twenty hours a week, of practice over ten years.”
Kramer goes on to talk about 10,000 hours in the context of wine expertise. He concludes that real experts “not only put in the time, they put in their hearts.” And perhaps that is the true mark of an expert. Practice and Passion.
Passion is what drives people to be great. Practice is what builds expertise. If you truly love what you do and commit yourself to disciplined practice, there is nothing that can truly deny you from achieving expertise.
What Passion do you intend to Practice?
