I am reading Malcolm Gladwell’s “Outliers: The Story of Success” and am finally able to make the connection to the reference of “10,000 hours”.

Basically what this means is that from research, the differentiating factor between people who are very successful in their chosen fields i.e. competitive sports, musical performance artistes, professionals is that they put in the magical 10,000 hours or so to be good in their field.

What does that mean for us?

Practice Makes Better

A distinguished toastmaster I know Mr. John Sih likes to use this phrase, “practice makes better.” To achieve mastery in anything, we need to devote sufficient time and energy to it. Of course, innate talent helps but you need to be good enough and then work hard at it. My own journey towards financial freedom really started when I earned my first pay check back in 1995. I began to ...