If you have read various articles on learning methods, you have probably heard of the so-called “10,000-Hour Rule”.
This is the law that Malcolm Gladwell points out in his book Outliers.
The book indicates that it takes 10,000 hours of deliberate practice for you to become an expert in a certain field.
That means if you practice eight hours a day and five days a week, you need at least five years to master a skill.
This law has now been widely accepted.
It has also become a concept often mentioned in many education books.
Many parents are educating their children in this way. It seems that they feel their children can achieve success if they devote enough time into it.
But is this learning method really useful?
It seems not.
The biggest problem with this method is that it can make people fear of difficulties.
It’s going to be hard to stick to one thing if you fear that you cannot do it from the very beginning.
And there are many people who haven’t taken the first step to practice.
How can it be helpful if you cannot even start doing it?
And is spending more time practicing really more helpful?
This is also not true.
A famous violinist once said that if you are practicing fingers, you can practice all day long, but if you are practicing the brain, it’s good of you to practice two hours a day.
This is why students are more willing to copy texts before solving math problems when they do their homework.
The practice of real masters is up to 1 to 1.5 hours at a time and 4 to 5 hours a day.
If your practice for a longer time, then you should think about whether you practice in the right way.
In fact, we can think of a common example, such as our high school period.
We spent more than 10 hours in school every day, but how many hours are we really learning?
Thus the question we really need to ask is not “how to learn effectively for a long time?”
Because it was unrealistic.
People who truly know how to learn know how to save time doing it.
After all, isn’t learning all about save yourself trouble?
It is a good thing to be willing to practice, but do not use tactical diligence to make up for strategic laziness.
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