Gladwell is a highly known journalist who wrote a couple of other books and he is also the one who has the first to introduce the 10,000 hour rule.

And what the rule really says is that if you put 10,000 hours in something, a skill or a niche, you will become great in this.

Most people think that successful people, the outliers, become great by a series of big events or that they just had the great hit.

But the opposite is true.

What people really make outliers is work.

Putting in the work makes all the difference. 10,000 hours is the magic number that makes an ordinary person great.

Outliers reach their incredible status by a combination of born ability, opportunity and an utterly arbitrary advantage.

This is what people see at the surface.

And this seems to be true, but what people never see is the hard work behind the scenes.

The grinding to make an average ability into a worthy skill.

The hours of studying to recognize the opportunity and then when they have reached that point, the hours upon hours of just executing the work.

And then you can say they have been lucky.

And maybe they sometimes are a little bit, but I think we can all agree that they made their own luck.

To be very clear, to become successful, you first need to practice a skill to develop from average to great.

Therefore it's handy to pick your best skill, because that saves time.

So pick your one strength, but let it also be the skill that you like the most.

Because if you have to put so many hours in it, well, you could say that you won't be happy if you do something you don't like, right?

And then you will recognize your chance and then you need to put in your 10,000 hours.

And if you do it this way, you are bound to be successful.

So please, come off that chair and start putting in the work.

Because 10,000 hours is five years practicing for eight hours a day.

How much is five years if you're set for a lifetime?

Thanks for your attention, and as always, get your ass into action.