Malcolm Gladwell writes “To become a chess grandmaster also seems to take about ten years…And what’s ten years? Well, it’s roughly how long it takes to put in ten thousand hours of hard practice. Ten thousand hours is the magic number of greatness.” (Gladwell 41). Gladwell is right that Ten thousand hours is the magic number because to achieve mastery in a certain skill it cannot happen overnight. The “Ten Thousand Hour” rule is the formula for success in achieving mastery of a skill because it
is being performed. In other words, people may have advantages depending on the time of the year they are born. They practice more for a sport or get further help for school. Gladwell says that “A boy who turns ten on January 2, then, could be playing alongside someone who does not turn ten until the end of the year…a twelve month gap in age represents enormous differences in physical maturity”(24). What he means is that a young boy born in January may have a greater physical advantage than a boy
that was given to them. In the novel, Outliers, by Malcolm Gladwell, the author explains that an outlier is one who is given an opportunity and knows how to take advantage. He believes that in order for a person to be successful they need at least ten thousand hours of hard work and effort in order to succeed at a skill. It is clear to me that like Malcolm Gladwell, I believe
for success: practice. The number of hours he says one must practice to obtain expert-level proficiency in a particular skill is ten thousand hours. He goes on to list several examples of successful individuals and makes the correlation between the amount of hours they practiced their skill and when they achieved expert-level proficiency (almost always around ten thousand hours of practice). While the magic number appears to be the main focus of the chapter when it comes to success, Gladwell seems
Xenophon and the Ten Thousand intended to help Cyrus take the Persian throne from Artaxerxes, Cyrus’s brother. Though the Ten Thousand came out with a tactical victory, Cyrus’s death reverted this victory to a loss and the expedition failed. The exiled Spartan general, Clearchus, and other Greek officers regained relative control over the troops but met with death at the hand of the traitor Tissaphernes. After these deaths, Xenophon and a few other officers were elected to lead the Ten Thousand back to Greece
Xenophon, the son of Athenian wealthy family, was exiled because of his assistance for the enemies of Athenians. He claimed that he was yearning for a thrilling adventure; as a result, he decided to join Cyrus’s expedition against his brother Artaxerxes, the Persian King along with the Greek mercenaries. Though Anabasis is more about the record of the Greeks’’ struggle and hardship during their retreat in the hostile territory, Xenophon writes Anabasis as his interest of ethnography. Ethnography
The ten thousand hour rule is oftentimes linked to success. The more practice a person has the better they will get at the task at hand. Throughout history it can be seen that people such as Bill Gates and The Beatles success came from the ten thousand hour rule as well as many other athletes, musicians and geniuses. Studies show that the most successful of musicians, athletes, mathematicians, etc. come from ten thousand hours of practice. “Practice isn’t the thing you do once you’re good. It’s the
Notes of comparison: Jefferson and Douglass “Ten Thousand Recollections” In Query XIV from the “Notes on the State of Virginia”, which was part of our reading from an earlier lecture, Thomas Jefferson engages the question of “Why not retain and incorporate the blacks into the state” once they are freed. Put another way, the question becomes” why ex-slaves once freed must be colonized (e.g. kicked out of the country). The first reason he gives is: “Deep rooted prejudices entertained by the whites;”
*BANG* Bone mixed with brain splatters across the ground. He falls, staining the ground with blood like his friends once did on a the battlefield years ago. He would now see all his friends he let down, all the innocent people who lost their lives after that deciding battle. He now only faces the judgment of god. Earlier that that day: “Hey! Hey! Hey, Edward!” “WHAAAAAT” “There's someone here to see you” “You sure its for me” “Positive” Edward stumbles out of the grasp of his gin and tonic and
Have you ever wondered where the conspiracy that if you pee in a pool the water will turn blue comes from? It comes from the movie Grown Ups, when Kevin James is sitting in the pool with his two kids and all of a sudden a cloud of blue swarms around their bodies. All men that have seen this movie are paranoid of this happening in real life, whether they admit it or not. The combination of an all-star cast, a genuine lesson learned at the end, and a humor that appeals to all age groups makes for
Erythrocytes are red blood cells in the human body. In the play Macbeth, most characters are very familiar with erythrocytes. From the first death of the Thane of Cawdor, to the last death of Macbeth, blood is mentioned over one hundred times in the play; therefore, it serves as a major theme. The image of blood represents many different aspects the character’s behavior. In Macbeth, blood represents guilt and Macbeth’s mental breakdown. First, blood plays a major role by showing guilt. It mainly
“Liberty is Worth Paying for. . .” Jules Verne Can an individual break hierarchical associations to find freedom and at which point would enlightenment be validated by achieving freedom through conflict? William Faulkner writes in “Barn Burning” about the desire for the individual to tear away from family because of disbelief in values and morals portrayed by a father. Abner becomes powerless with the release of slaves and chooses to transfer his negative desire for power onto his son. Although
The Character of No-one in Twenty-Thousand Leagues Under the Sea Alan Quatermain, sitting hunched over and delirious from opium withdrawal, has been taken aboard a huge submersible vessel. The aging adventurer says, "P-please. I feel so sick. Need my medicine." A cold voice answers him, "You are aboard my ship, sir, and my remedies are bitter." Quatermain turns, with his eyes rolled back, teeth clenched, and streams of sweat rolling off of his face, and he says, "Who said that? .
How the Catholic Church Survived Two Thousand Introduction On theDay of Pardon in the Year of Jubilee, 2000 years after the birth of JesusChrist, Pope John Paul II and several other high members of the Catholic Churchperformed a prayer of forgiveness and confession, apologizing for all thewrongdoings of the Church. The Pope said later that they had been preparing todo this for several years, but had chosen the year 2000 Further, the Popeactually apologizing for the wrongdoings of the Church
Choice in One Hundred Years of Solitude and Thousand Cranes The issue of choice arises when comparing Gabriel Marquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude and Yasunari Kawabata's Thousand Cranes. The men in each novel forever seem to be repeating the lives of their male ancestors. These cycles reveal that man as a being, just like the mythological heros, has no true choice in the ultimate course his life will take. The male characters' personal development is overshadowed by the identity of
"A Night of a Thousand Suicides" by Teruhiko Asada The novel based on actual events "A Night of a Thousand Suicides" by Teruhiko Asada, took place in an Australian prisoner of war camp, during World War II. The story involves captured Japanese soldiers planning an escape from an Australian POW camp. The soldiers knowing that a successful escape was most unlikely were faced with the reality of certain death. The battle came not only from their captors but mostly from within themselves. The struggle
Body and Nature as Metaphor in A Thousand Acres Most issues on a farm return to the issue of keeping up appearances. (Smiley p.199) [T]he female body is a reservoir, a virgin patch of still, pooled water where the fetus comes to term. (Paglia p.27) [A] fetus is a benign tumor, a vampire who steals in order to live. (Paglia p.11) The epigraph to this novel is from "The Ancient People and the Newly Come": The body repeats the landscape. They are the source of each other and create each other
God reveals His divine plan of redemption for Israel by the time we read Exodus chapter 20. The Lord’s mighty hand released the nation of Israel from their taskmasters. He brought them to His holy mountain and there He will personally write the Ten Commandments (Decalogue) and give them to Moses for the people. God pours out His sovereign law out on a tablet and written on the hearts of men. Through these laws, the LORD sets in motion His divine plan for social, religious and national order for
Do the Ten Commandments apply the world we live in today? Billy Graham put it this way “The Ten Commandments are just as valid today as when God gave them to Moses over 3,000 years ago. Jesus said, “I tell you the truth, until heaven and earth disappear, not the smallest letter, not the least stroke of a pen, will by any means disappear from the Law” (Matthew 5:18),” Billy Graham. Every passing day it seems christianity becomes more and more meaningless. Keeping the ten commandments is necessary
Cartoons: Land of Imagination Just as Moses climbed Mount Sinai to receive the ten commands, the following are the ten laws that govern my most interesting place. 1. Any body suspended in space will remain in space until made aware of its situation. 2. Any body in motion will tend to remain in motion until solid matter intervenes suddenly. 3. Any body passing through solid matter will leave a perforation conforming to its perimeter. 4. The time required for an object to fall twenty stories is greater