13 Feb
2010
13 Feb
'10
8:29 p.m.
On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 09:42:04AM -0500, Paul Davis wrote:
On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 8:41 AM, Viktor Mastoridis
<viktor(a)mastoridis.co.uk> wrote:
That number matches my experience exactly. I've changed careers several times now (by
age 43), and indeed it generally takes me about 5 years to obtain competence at anything.
-ken
Nice topic:-)
to me, a talent is a gift, something (an ability?) )that a person has in
one's genes.
you can develop the talent through work and become a craftsman.
You can become a craftsman without a talent
Thus, craftsmanship is not a talent, a gift - it's something that we achieve
with our will and through effort.
you can't develop a talent if you don't possess it.
They say: 5% talent, 95% work.
1) most of us don't know what are talents are
2) "genius is 90% perspiration, 10% inspiration"
3) some recent estimates are that it takes about 10,000 hours (*) of
just about anything to master it. this is said to be independent of
"talent".
4) if you think you can become a craftsman through will and effort
alone, you probably haven't tried to become a craftsman in anything
that you lack talent for.
(*) thats about 5-6 years, working 40hrs a week on a discipline