One of the bigger misconceptions of learning is that many skills take a lifetime to get world-class at, or 10,000 hours to become world-class at.
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If you really want to be world class - to be the best you can be - it comes down to preparation and practice.
You know, it's been proven that 35 to 40 hours a year with one-on-one attention, a student can get one grade level higher.
I feel I've done the 10,000 hours you have to do to get good at something.
The world is the true classroom. The most rewarding and important type of learning is through experience, seeing something with our own eyes.
Classes struggle, some classes triumph, others are eliminated. Such is history; such is the history of civilization for thousands of years.
Yet the home courses are where you spend dozens to hundreds of hours a year. You must choose them well.
We all know that there are these exemplars who can take the toughest students, and they'll teach them two-and-a-half years of math in a single year.
I think it's become an economic necessity for people to be able to learn and grow throughout their lives, because most people can't get through their entire career with one skill set. We have to keep reinventing ourselves.
In most developed countries, the average person receives about 16 years of education. Even in developing countries, the population gets five to eight years of education.
People say I'm not world level, but I haven't fought at that class yet, so you can't say that until I have.
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