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Originally Posted by surffisher2a
i wish this kind of stuff happened in my area.
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I'm reading a great book right now....Bounce, by Matthew Syed. It's about the science of successfully mastering complicated skills, from sports to music to business, etc...
Your comment resonates with the theme of the book, which shows how every champion or worldclass performer has two things in common when it comes to how they became successful -- opportunity and practice/experience. Young champions, 15 to 20 years old, are merely the beneficiaries of advantageous opportunities and about 10 years of dedicated practice and experience.
If you are fortunate enough to live in an area that provides certain learning/training opportunities, or as a child happen to have parents that provide certain opportunities (as with Tiger Woods, Bill Gates, Mozart, Joe Bonnamassa, etc...), you'll have an amazing advantage over the average person when it comes to mastering an instrument, a sport, or a game. Of course, you must have passion/desire, dedication to practice. Stick with it for about 10,000 hours, typically about 10 years, and you will reach a worldclass level.
Imagine how many children have had opportunities provided, but lacked the interest or desire to stick with it. Yet a kid somewhere else, maybe right down the street or in another town, would've stuck with it and become the next world champion golfer or chess player or pool player or whatever...but the opportunity wasn't available or provided.
