matter of well this person is genius this personal has amazing ability

it is actual practice and hard work

you know it's all a bunch of group of really brilliant psychologists in a in

the field of expertise research

have sat down and tried to figure out how long do you have to work at something

before you become really good

and the answer seems to be it's an extraordinary consistent answer in an incredible

number of fields and that is you need to practice to of apprenticed for ten

thousand hours before you get good

so every great classical composer without exception composes for at least

ten years before they write the master work. Mozart, ten..

Mozart is composing at eleven but he's composing

garbage at eleven I mean he doesn't produce something great until he is

22 or 23 concerto No.9 I think 271

if i ask you how long did it take you when you were doing this job before you felt

comfortable and good at what you're doing? -10 years. -Same with me.

It's an incredibly consistent finding and it's really important because it says

that we are far too impatient with people

when we assess whether someone has got what it takes to

do a certain job we always want to

make that assessment for after six months or a year or...

and that's ridiculous you know the kinds of jobs we have people do today are

sufficiently complex that they require a long time to reach mastery what we

should be doing is setting up institutions and structures that allow

people to spend the time and effort to reach mastery not judging them

prematurely. What is the take away? What is the lesson for people

who want to be more successful? And what is

in some ways it's a good news that

they don't have to be geniuses

yeah i know i've been, you know, I'm very anxious at this book not be seen

as a self-help book but be seen as a kind of community help book because lots

of the thing but I really want people to do is start thinking about

how can we as a society build

institutions that provide opportunities to work hard. -It's fascinating

Thank you very much