{"id":1053105,"date":"2011-05-29T15:54:46","date_gmt":"2011-05-29T15:54:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.immortalitymedicine.tv\/neurology\/the-10-year-rule-you-must-persevere-with-learning-and-practising-for-10-years-before-making-breakthrough.php"},"modified":"2024-08-17T18:48:10","modified_gmt":"2024-08-17T22:48:10","slug":"the-10-year-rule-you-must-persevere-with-learning-and-practising-for-10-years-before-making-breakthrough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/neurology\/the-10-year-rule-you-must-persevere-with-learning-and-practising-for-10-years-before-making-breakthrough.php","title":{"rendered":"The 10-year rule: you must persevere with learning and practising for 10 years before making breakthrough"},"content":{"rendered":"

From The Lancet<\/a>:<\/p>

Hard work is required: <\/b>“Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration” - Thomas Edison<\/p>

Late in life, Charles Darwin made the same point in a letter to his son: “I have been speculating last night what makes a man a discoverer of undiscovered things, and a most perplexing problem it is.—Many men who are very clever,—much cleverer than the discoverers—never originate anything. As far as I can conjecture, the art consists in habitually searching for causes or meaning of everything which occurs.” Darwin was a relentless student of nature from 1828 until the few weeks in late 1838 when he suddenly perceived the mechanism of evolution by natural selection.<\/p>

There can be no doubt that geniuses have worked habitually and continually. Darwin produced 160 published papers, in addition to celebrated books and a vast correspondence. Albert Einstein had 240 publications, Sigmund Freud 330, Henri Poincaré 500 papers and 30 books; Edison was the owner of 1093 patents, lodging an average of one patent every 2 weeks of his adult life. In the arts, J S Bach on average composed 20 pages of finished music per day, while Pablo Picasso created more than 20,000 works.<\/p>

Experience is essential: <\/b>“Where observation is concerned, chance favours only the prepared mind” - Louis Pasteur<\/p>

The 10-year rule states that a person must persevere with learning and practising a craft or discipline for about 10 years before he or she can make a breakthrough. The initial scientific evidence for the rule came from studies in the 1960s and 1970s of chess-players, who take 10 years and more to become masters of the game. Then it was found to apply to Olympic swimmers and concert pianists.<\/p>

Hardly any genius in history—not even Leonardo da Vinci—seems to have short-cut the long and gradual path to creative breakthroughs.<\/p>

References<\/b><\/p>

Perspiration, inspiration, and the 10-year rule<\/a>. The Lancet, Volume 376, Issue 9751, Pages 1458 - 1459, 30 October 2010.<\/p>

Twitter comments: <\/b><\/p>

@equijada: the ability to infer disparate ideas into one is the 1%. The rest is just salty water. 10-yrs, 10,000 hrs -> playing w\/ observations<\/p>

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