#29 Stay on the bus?
Most of us have heard about deliberate practice. "I t entails considerable, specific, and sustained efforts to do something you can’t do well—or even at all. Research across domains shows that it is only by working at what you can’t do that you turn into the expert you want to become." The 10,000-Hour Rule has also been used widely after Malcolm Gladwell published his book Outliers: The Story of Success . Though there were many criticism of the 10,000 hour rule, I thought it was a good benchmark for anyone wanting to try their hands at something. Then today I read this . The Helsinki Bus Station Theory. It talks about a photographer, Minkkinen giving a speech to graduating students. He reckoned creative life to hoping on a bus after choosing one of the platforms at the bus station. Each bus stop interval represents one year of the life of a creative. At the third year, a photographer could have come up with a series of photos and realise that w...