Crazy amount of practice

[Black-Balled]

People like you who make unnecessary and needlessly negative comments are the ones who ruin threads. Try to be tolerant of other opinions.

You've obviously misread me.

I'm sure reading all my posts will make you tingle inside.

 

[Black-Balled]

Oh, I don't know. Concert pianists practice for 6-10 hours, EVERY day, especially before a concert. 6-time World Snooker Champion, Steve Davis, said he would stroke the cue ball up and down over the spots on the table for at least an hour every day, to the point of wearing a groove in the cloth! The end result of course was history making, with the (then) straightest cue action in the world.
Arnold Schwarzenegger won more titles than anyone else simply because he trained harder than anyone else, with iron-like determination.
I think anyone who wants to seriously be the very best, will endure as many hours of hard practice as can procure the results they are looking for. We all know that playing is NOT practice as well so this makes it even more remarkable as you say. Personally, I have put my time in on the piano (my profession) because I was hooked on it and loved it, and my pool game, though benefitting from regular (proper) practice, would not yield the results in the time I have left (I'm 62) were I to commit to so many hours per week, so I practice to the point where I'm tired and then..... you get the picture. (I did practice on just my break for at LEAST 45 minutes for FIVE days - that's a LOT of re-racking! - and it had an AMAZING effect on my breaking accuracy, timing and confidence, so it really DOES work. Other players even commented.) It's up to you. Dedication breeds success - it's all a matter of degree.

Lol. Arnold had doctors with 0 fear about the results of what was injected into him.

Yes, he worked out but his PEDs took him to the top.

 

[Black-Balled]

I know .. replying to myself, but with something to add. The "10,000 hour rule" has never sat well with me, it seems contrived and simplified. Above I tried to recall what Ericsson said about the rule, and was not quite accurate. Below are pictures of a couple of pages from Peak ... consider them sample pages Hope this helps folks understand the relevance or irrelevance of the "10,000 hour rule":

Dave

I know .. replying to myself, but with something to add. The "10,000 hour rule" has never sat well with me, it seems contrived and simplified. Above I tried to recall what Ericsson said about the rule, and was not quite accurate. Below are pictures of a couple of pages from Peak ... consider them sample pages Hope this helps folks understand the relevance or irrelevance of the "10,000 hour rule":

Dave

Put your finger away and don't make me tell you twice?

 

[VarmintKong]

5 years and 2 months since this thread was a thing. A full time job is 2,000 hours a year?

Since then, we have all had an opportunity to have practiced 10,000 hours.

Therefore, we should all be disappointed in ourselves that we are not yet professional level violinists.

Shameful. I would expect the orchestras of most major cities to have been infiltrated by pool players disguised as violinists by now.