Let’s look at the version made popular by Malcolm Gladwell, in his book Outliers.9 He states that it takes about ten thousand hours to achieve greatness and become a world-class performer. If you practise for three hours every day, it will take you around ten years to hit ten thousand hours. Now ten thousand hours is only an average, so depending on the field, the number of hours required to become exceptional may vary from 5,000 to 20,000 hours. Nothing comes easy. As someone once said, ‘It takes ten years to become an overnight success.’
