Dr. Angela Duckworth
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
I'm like, when I'm running?
No, I'm listening to podcasts.
And then he said, do you get immediate feedback on things that you could improve before you go out for your next run?
And I was like, are you kidding?
Who would give me that?
So I was doing low quality practice.
So the 10,000 hour rule is this.
If you want to become great,
at what you do.
You have to do thousands of hours, maybe not the exact number, 10,000, but yes, thousands of hours of the highest quality practice that you can do.
And what Anders and I found together is that when you are really passionate and persevering about a long-term goal, you are the sort of person who puts in more of those high quality hours.
Exactly right.
I mean, it's so simple, isn't it?
Like Mel, it's free.
Sounds painful, honestly.
Okay, it's painful.
It's painful, but there's no patent.
Like, you don't have to pay anybody, right?
I mean, you know, it's psychologically costly, but, you know, it's financially available to all of us.
None.