Bui Hoa
ESL201
Prof. Coleman
7 April 2015
The 10,000 Hours Rule Being at the time and right place, innate talents, social advantages are the general rules of success; more importantly, hardworking is considered as ‘The 10,000 hour rule’ is more than general but a primary rule of success. According to Gladwell, who is being known as great author who originally wrote a book ‘Outliers’, he states that hard work could lead people to their successes and takes roughly ten thousand hours practice to achieve mastery in a field. I enormously agree with Malcolm Gladwell’s idea in which he claims that the most successful people work much harder than anyone else.
The Beatles are the perfect examples that clearly demonstrate the 10,000 hours rule. In my opinion, the 10,000 rule is indispensable for people who are dreaming about success regardless of their social background. Gladwell brings dozen of examples such as Mozart, the Beatles, Bill joy and lots more to the table to demonstrate the important of the 10,000 hour rule in his book ‘Outliers’. The Beatles were widely known all over the world in 1970’s; since, nobody knows how hard they worked. According to Gladwell, the Beatles’ members were working all seven days a week at the time. Before the Beatles’ first burst of success in 1960, they came to Hamburg five times in as short as one and a half years doing their live shows; furthermore, they performed for two hundred seventy live nights with approximately two hundred and thirty hours of live performing, while most bands today don’t perform twelve hundred times in their entire careers. In other words, the hard work brought the Beatles from very bottom to the top of the world. The 10.000 hour rule played an extremely important rule of the Beatles success. They learned how to perform their music more beautifully after enormous hours of practice and performing.
The 10,000 hours rule is extremely effective once people get used to it. People consecutively grow their skills though a process of 10,000 hours rule in a particular field before they could achieve their successes in the field. In the ‘Outliers’, “Practice isn’t the thing you do once you’re good. It’s the thing you do that makes you good” (p.42). According to Gladwell. In other words, practice endlessly over again in a field could achieve mastery in that field. Since the Beatles practiced non-stop hours of playing times that grew their performing skills and forced them to performed better and better. Furthermore, Chris Gardner who was a character in the great movie talked about hardworking could bring the success ‘Pursuit of Happyness’. Gardner has been struggled with his entire life with his family, but at the end he’s a millionaire. While he was having problem with his wife and tried to feed his son and he was dreaming to become a stockbroker. He was single-handedly covered his son daily even at the time he was a homeless man and working hard for approximately six months to become a