10,000 Hours
Forty years ago in a paper called American Scientist, Herbert Simon and William Chase made one of the most famous conclusions in the study of expertise during a chess match: “We would estimate, very roughly, that a master has spent perhaps 10,000 to 50,000 hours staring at chess positions…” But does this claim really have any evidence behind it? According to Malcolm Gladwell in his book Outliers, the 10,000 hour rule is completely true as well as other factors that lead to expertise in a particular field. Most people who do not believe in the 10,000 rule do not take account for the other factors that must go along with it, for the rule to hold up to its claim.
Cristiano Ronaldo, one of the best soccer players in the world at this moment is someone who can accurately be looked at and compared to the 10,000 hour rule. Cristiano began playing soccer at the age of three. At eight, he was signed to an amateur team Andorinha Sporting. In the period of one year, he was the only player to ever play for Sporting's under 16, under 17, under 18, B team, and the first team, all wi...
Gladwell repeats the ten thousand hour number several times throughout the chapter and he states that researchers believe “the magic number for true expertise” is ten thousand hours (40). I agree that it takes a substantial amount of practice to go beyond simple proficiency to become an expert in many areas. However, I’m not completely sold on the ten thousand hour number. Many people put in well over forty hours of work each week, fifty weeks a year, totaling over 10,000 hours in a five-year period. How many would consider themselves “experts” after only five years of practice? Repetition, especially flawed repetition, does not lead towards perfection. Practice needs to be structured and focused so you can develop your strengths while improving your weaknesses. While 10,000 hours may not make one an exper...
Who’s smarter at chess - computers or humans? Chess is all about ultimate way of thinking, which puts it on a same level as an extreme sport.In the eighteenth century, Wolfgang von Kempelen caused a stir with his clockwork Mechanical Turk—an automaton that played an eerily good game of chess, even beating Napoleon Bonaparte.CLIVE THOMPSON is a freelance journalist and blogger who writes for the New York Times Magazine and Wired.He blogs at collisiondetection.net. This essay is adapted from his book, Smarter Than You Think: How Technology Is Changing Our Minds for the Better (2013). A writer for Scientific American fretted that the inventor "Would Substitute Machinery for the Human Mind." Eighty years later, in 1997, this intellectual
How were you first introduced to CS? How have you continued to develop your technical skills and seek additional exposure to the field?
Gladwell effectively uses rhetorical devices, tone, and factual evidence to support his claim of the 10,000 hour rule. Using rhetorical devices such as parallelism, facts and statistics (logos), and style of writing, Gladwell reinforces his idea of practice. Malcolm Gladwell uses his evidence to make a reader truly think about those who are successful as being hard workers, not just “lucky”. He illustrates how many well-known experts became legends in their field. This not only shows how software moguls and tycoons became wealthy or successful, but how the reader can as well: by following the old piece of advice “practice makes perfect”.
Pelé's soccer career started early. After playing in a few amateur teams like Baquinho and Sete Setembro, at the age of 11, while playing for an uncoached team called Ameriquinha, he was discovered by a former Brasilian World Cup player named Waldemar de Brito. De Brito recognized Pelé's skills and invited him to join the team he was organizing (Clube Atlético Baurú?). When Pelé was fifteen, in 1956, de Brito took him to the city of São Paulo to try out for the professional club called Santos Futebol Clube (SFC). That day, de Brito told the team directors that "This boy will be the greatest soccer player in the world."
And the skills we try to learn can be less strenuous to obtain. He takes us back to kasparov and how when he was coming about in the soviet union only a few kids that showed promise could get lessons from a grand master and then be able to access records to famous chess games. Clive Thompson considers the fact that computers have leveled the playing field. Now any kid anywhere in the world that has access to the internet can learn more about chess games. Playing an artificial opponent made the game a little faster and the instincts of a player became fast as well. A player could also experiment and see what the outcome of different moves could be. This also means grandmaster players are being produced at a much younger age than ever before. He makes a reference to grand master Bobby Fischer who became a grand master at age fifteen. He does this to show how with the emergence of computers new grand masters are getting younger and younger. Such as Sergey Karjakin who became grand master in two thousand and two at the age of twelve. This clearly shows how computers speed up the learning
Smarter than You Think starts out with a cautionary tale of how in 1997 world chess champion Garry Kasparov was beaten by Deep Blue, an I.B.M. supercomputer. This was a considered a milestone in artificial intelligence. If a computer could easily defeat a chess champion, what would happen to the game and its players? A year after Kasparov was defeated by the program he decided to see what would happen when a computer and person were paired up. He called this collaboration the centaur; A hybrid consisting of the algorithms and history logs of chess as well as the brain to “analyze their opponents’ strengths and weaknesses, as well as their moods.” ...
...oke multiple records. He helped to win the UEFA Euro Team of the Tournament in both 2004 and 2012, and the UEFA Team of the Year not once, not twice, but six times in the years 2003, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, and 2010. Some of his broken records included being the first player in the history of El Clasico to score in six straight games, the only player to have won the European Golden Shoe in two different leagues, the first top European league player to reach 40 goals in a single season in two consecutive years, the first player to score against every team in La Liga, the most hat-tricks in a single season for Real Madrid, seven, the most matches played in World Cup finals, 11 matches, Portugal all-time top scorer, 49 goals, and there are over thirty-five other records that he has broken.
“ They tell me that all men are created equal in the eyes of god but this man seriously makes you think about those words,” is how an entertaining soccer commentator, Ray Hudson described Lionel Messi’s outstanding performance on the pitch. In the book Outliers, by Malcolm Gladwell, Gladwell demonstrates that there are extraordinary circumstances and external factors that allows a person to become successful in life as an outlier. Despite Messi’s contradicting physical appearance, standing 5 foot and 7 inches tall as a record breaking soccer phenomenal, he is most definitely an outlier who shook the history of soccer. Many Believe that Lionel Messi was not a natural born talented player but external factors and the opportunities he was given allowed him to become a player who is arguably the best player to every play in history of soccer.
No other country can compare to the great nation of Brazil when it comes to the beautiful game of soccer. Since their entrance as full member of FIFA, or Fédération Internationale de Football Association, in 1923, the country of Brazil has accounted for numerous trophies as well as individual awards for its players (“Brazil”). Brazilian futebol, or soccer, has reached international stardom because of its history consisting of ground breaking teams, revolutionary players, and winning performances in competitive tournaments.
Mastering one’s self is essential in reaching one’s full potential. In this paper I will attempt to articulate what it means to achieve personal mastery. I will first provide my own personal portrayal of personal mastery. Following, I will illustrate examples from my life, and what personal mastery means to me.
The first part of the “Ten Thousand Hour” rule integrates practice. Practicing a certain skill is essential to the ten thousand hour rule. If people expect to have success without practicing, they are not going to get anywhere. It takes days, hours, and years of practice to master something. A perfect example about hours of practice would be Michael Jordan. Michael Jordan spent countless hours on and off the court to improve his basketball game. Without those hours, his career would have never been as successful as it was. In his book Outliers: The Story of Success, Malcolm Gladwell perfectly states what practice is about by saying “Practice isn't the thing you do once you're good It's the thing you do that makes you good” (Gladwell 42). Gladwell is corr...
In conclusion, we can see that Messi’s career have been successful in over a short period of time. But, has also had some upsets that were overcome by the young superstar and also overcame his disorder to reach his goal of being a professional soccer player. In addition, all his hard work have paid off because he won some of the most prestigious award that a soccer player can get at this level, like the Golden Ball. And that can say that he is the “FIFA World Player”, of the seasons 2008 and 2009, because all the people decided that he decided, such as thing like that.
Despite the evidence, most players will scream at the referees telling them that they're wrong, not Lionel Messi. Messi will just simply sigh and agree with the referee, even if he disagrees with the call. You will hear stories about players that have a great amount of playing time, but overall, Messi pretty much holds the record. This man is hardly ever taken out of the game (unless he is injured) and it is mostly because the coach knows that Messi can get the job done. If I could meet one professional soccer player it would be, no doubt, Lionel Messi.
When Ronaldo was a young boy his mom wanted to abort him. Luckily this didn’t happen because he's the greatest soccer player of all time. He was not rich he was poor. He fought his way through all the way to the top. He had a heart disease that made his heart race which could have ended his soccer career. Ronaldo is a big inspiration to me and a lot of other people. He makes me try harder when i see him. He took his team to the world cup in 2014 he scored a hat trick and this is a big deal because the world cup happens every four years and only a handful of countries make it. When i watch Ronaldo play i feel like nothing else matters because it doesn’t. Ronaldo went through a bad knee injury in 2014 before the world cup started and you could tell it had an effect on him. His team was not going so hot they got kicked out of the world cups first knockout stage. In 2015 he overcame his injury and had a good year but the best was yet to come in 2016 and 2017 they won the