Quote:
Originally Posted by AlphaFrog
Most of the time when someone does achieve "the next level", you hear stories of how they've been at it since they were 3.
|
Which means that they sacrifice a very large number of normal childhood experiences to be the best. Malcolm Gladwell wrote about 10,000 hours being the standard for becoming an "expert" at something. That's an awful lot of time.
This isn't to say there aren't people for whom it isn't a sacrifice, but they are their own kind of particular genius, I think (Glenn Gould comes to mind). Rare is the child who really wants to give up normal kid stuff to be a concert virtuoso.
Threaded Mode
