The most understandable factor of dividing into being an amateur violinist and being an professional violinist is amount of time for practice.
It's all depends on violinist's stance of how well they can perform in front of the audience regardless of whether they are an amateur or an professional violinist so there are some amateur violinists who practice very hard enough to be able to stand on stage and to get money from audience.
However it is said that statistically the average amount of time that amateur violinists practice is 3 hours a week. Professional will practice for 33 hours a week.
Even if you are a sports player, a magician or a comic artist, you need 10000 hours to join the stages of professionals in all kinds of fields ("Malcolm Gladwell 10000 hours rule")
It is indeed there are few successful man who join parties and watch TV sluggishly. When it comes to 10000 hours investment for your skill, it will totally take 3 years and half if you make effort patiently 8 hours a day.
I think there are many times young successful people tend to regard as one of a "gifted" but I imagine their amount of effort they'll make where we don't know is unbelievable.
Of course, sometimes there should be patterns of winning success with only luck and connections, but even if winning success in that case, having no true ability will end up being seen through your actual skill by clients or partner. So very difficult to flourish for long time.
What I want to say here is not effort is everything after all. I mean it's too difficult to win success by a side business. If you are able to use your time fully all day long on Saturday and Sunday and you already have potential to make effort for 15 hours a day, 15x2 = 30 hours, you can use 30 hours on your weekends. And if you have no overtime work on ordinary days, you can use 6 hours a day. If you tackle your own side business every day, Realistic amount of time that you can use a week is 60 hours. When I calculated this for a year, it comes to 3120hours. It will reach around 10000 hours in 3 years.
I know a man who opened up his own business from his side business which was started at the time he was an office worker with the allotment of the time a day within 3 years like above. However he cut down his sleep time so it's difficult to practice like him.
Generally people who tackle their side business is to mostly work for only 3 to 5 hours on weekends. Assuming that they face their business 4 hours two days, it's going to be 8 hours a week and 410 hours a year.
it will take 25 years to reach 10000 hours at this pace. Of course, if you want to earn just penny for your spending money to help your living, it is no problem. But if you are the one who want to start up business at this speed, I don't think it's good for you to make it as your regular job.
the stream of business is very fast in contrast to artistic thing. It is said that a category of business go out of fashion in 10 years so even if you keep this pace to run your business continuously for 25 years, probably you may not capture the essence.
By the way, there are some cases that the person who had only 2 years career as pianist was much better performance than the one who had more than 10 years career as pianist. When I asked that 10-year-carrer-pianist how much he practiced every day then he answered he practiced 3 hours a week.
On the other hand, the 2-year-carrer-pianist said he has been as crazy about practicing every day as sacrificing all the comforts of life like one possessed for 2 years.
Of course, the direction of effort is also important, which make a difference of results if managing same amount of task. However, a man producing good results is making effort overwhelmingly. No need to rush to make a profit during short terms but as long as you keep the 410-hour-a-year-pace for your business, you will not be able to get out of a category of one of hobbies.
Thinking of above thing, 10000 hours is absolutely in need for your business to success as much as you are the professional.
In this modern age, a lot of pastimes make your time waste. If great amount of time a day is deprived by TV, game, Social Networking, no dream will come true. This matter should be made an strong appeal to children in school education.
In my experience, I know some of guys who are spending nicer and richer life than ordinary people go to thousands or parties and deceive people to earn more money without making effort. They only have strong connections with a man of weight in their industry.
However, personally I will not be afraid if the companies run by these guys become my rival. As long as not neglecting effort, you will pay no heed to these guys. But the most threatened existence for me is a man who can make effort continuously and persistently until winning the market share.
Pretty easy to say a word of making effort continuously every day but actually there are few people who can do this. This is exactly the shortcut to success.
He said as follows about 10000 hours rule.
" Some people say that if a man focuses on one thing for 10000 hours, he will extremely be prominent about a field. But I don't think it's so easy thing. "
" The truth is, after people spent 50 hours, 90% people will drop out for the reason that the field is not suitable for them or don't like it."
"Moreover, meanwhile 90% people from the 10% of survivors spending 50 hours to make effort will drop off. There is a general cycle such these things. Not only luck, you also need enthusiasm to continue to do one thing for so long. Nobody can make effort continuously for 10000 hours without spontaneous enthusiasm
ーIchiroー
Ichiro went to a batting center every day for 7 years from his third grade of elementary school to his third grade of junior high school. I couldn't find accurate information of how many hours he had practiced there but he seemed to hit 250 balls a day so probably he practiced for 3 hours every day. 7x365x3=7665hours His batting training is only a part of his training menu, which means his effort far exceed 10000 hours. He is the one who suits a proverb of "practice makes perfect".
THE BEATLES
When they were unknown music groups, it is said that they performed at a strip theater 8 hours a day for consecutive 1200 days every day. 8x1200 = 9600 hours. They didn't show their tracks of effort to people so they are treated as "gifted" in the world. Actually their effort is as tremendously hard as ordinary people can never imitate.
People who are in correct direction by chance from the beginning are lucky but most of people fail to choose the direction if learning by themselves. Especially in case of sports, Learning from a good instructor is essential to make a best results. It won't serve the purpose if people don't recognized your result achieved by your potential ability.
After all, the wall of 10000 hours is only the requirement for success and this condition is not enough to reach success. However in my personal experience, even if your direction is not correct to make forward, you should keep challenging until you notice this is incorrect. The time and effort put into working towards your objective will absolutely not betray you.
At some points , you will definitely face at the moment that things are going from bad to worse but what support you then is your spirit that drove you to make effort continuously.
You should keep challenging and making effort until you win success. Especially about the field of business, maiking effort is more easily connecting to your results than that of sports and artistic things.
It's all depends on violinist's stance of how well they can perform in front of the audience regardless of whether they are an amateur or an professional violinist so there are some amateur violinists who practice very hard enough to be able to stand on stage and to get money from audience.
However it is said that statistically the average amount of time that amateur violinists practice is 3 hours a week. Professional will practice for 33 hours a week.
Even if you are a sports player, a magician or a comic artist, you need 10000 hours to join the stages of professionals in all kinds of fields ("Malcolm Gladwell 10000 hours rule")
It is indeed there are few successful man who join parties and watch TV sluggishly. When it comes to 10000 hours investment for your skill, it will totally take 3 years and half if you make effort patiently 8 hours a day.
I think there are many times young successful people tend to regard as one of a "gifted" but I imagine their amount of effort they'll make where we don't know is unbelievable.
Of course, sometimes there should be patterns of winning success with only luck and connections, but even if winning success in that case, having no true ability will end up being seen through your actual skill by clients or partner. So very difficult to flourish for long time.
What I want to say here is not effort is everything after all. I mean it's too difficult to win success by a side business. If you are able to use your time fully all day long on Saturday and Sunday and you already have potential to make effort for 15 hours a day, 15x2 = 30 hours, you can use 30 hours on your weekends. And if you have no overtime work on ordinary days, you can use 6 hours a day. If you tackle your own side business every day, Realistic amount of time that you can use a week is 60 hours. When I calculated this for a year, it comes to 3120hours. It will reach around 10000 hours in 3 years.
I know a man who opened up his own business from his side business which was started at the time he was an office worker with the allotment of the time a day within 3 years like above. However he cut down his sleep time so it's difficult to practice like him.
Generally people who tackle their side business is to mostly work for only 3 to 5 hours on weekends. Assuming that they face their business 4 hours two days, it's going to be 8 hours a week and 410 hours a year.
it will take 25 years to reach 10000 hours at this pace. Of course, if you want to earn just penny for your spending money to help your living, it is no problem. But if you are the one who want to start up business at this speed, I don't think it's good for you to make it as your regular job.
the stream of business is very fast in contrast to artistic thing. It is said that a category of business go out of fashion in 10 years so even if you keep this pace to run your business continuously for 25 years, probably you may not capture the essence.
By the way, there are some cases that the person who had only 2 years career as pianist was much better performance than the one who had more than 10 years career as pianist. When I asked that 10-year-carrer-pianist how much he practiced every day then he answered he practiced 3 hours a week.
On the other hand, the 2-year-carrer-pianist said he has been as crazy about practicing every day as sacrificing all the comforts of life like one possessed for 2 years.
Of course, the direction of effort is also important, which make a difference of results if managing same amount of task. However, a man producing good results is making effort overwhelmingly. No need to rush to make a profit during short terms but as long as you keep the 410-hour-a-year-pace for your business, you will not be able to get out of a category of one of hobbies.
Thinking of above thing, 10000 hours is absolutely in need for your business to success as much as you are the professional.
In this modern age, a lot of pastimes make your time waste. If great amount of time a day is deprived by TV, game, Social Networking, no dream will come true. This matter should be made an strong appeal to children in school education.
In my experience, I know some of guys who are spending nicer and richer life than ordinary people go to thousands or parties and deceive people to earn more money without making effort. They only have strong connections with a man of weight in their industry.
However, personally I will not be afraid if the companies run by these guys become my rival. As long as not neglecting effort, you will pay no heed to these guys. But the most threatened existence for me is a man who can make effort continuously and persistently until winning the market share.
Pretty easy to say a word of making effort continuously every day but actually there are few people who can do this. This is exactly the shortcut to success.
Examples of success which make us feel tremendous amount of efforts
ーBill Gatesー He started learning programming when he was second year of Junior high school student. He had kept learning 8 hours a day for 7 years until he was sophomore of Harverd. 7x365 = 20440 hours. Of course after dropping out of the university, he should've kept learning. He is very famous about building up enormous fortune of more than 700 billion dollars.He said as follows about 10000 hours rule.
" Some people say that if a man focuses on one thing for 10000 hours, he will extremely be prominent about a field. But I don't think it's so easy thing. "
" The truth is, after people spent 50 hours, 90% people will drop out for the reason that the field is not suitable for them or don't like it."
"Moreover, meanwhile 90% people from the 10% of survivors spending 50 hours to make effort will drop off. There is a general cycle such these things. Not only luck, you also need enthusiasm to continue to do one thing for so long. Nobody can make effort continuously for 10000 hours without spontaneous enthusiasm
ーIchiroー
Ichiro went to a batting center every day for 7 years from his third grade of elementary school to his third grade of junior high school. I couldn't find accurate information of how many hours he had practiced there but he seemed to hit 250 balls a day so probably he practiced for 3 hours every day. 7x365x3=7665hours His batting training is only a part of his training menu, which means his effort far exceed 10000 hours. He is the one who suits a proverb of "practice makes perfect".
THE BEATLES
When they were unknown music groups, it is said that they performed at a strip theater 8 hours a day for consecutive 1200 days every day. 8x1200 = 9600 hours. They didn't show their tracks of effort to people so they are treated as "gifted" in the world. Actually their effort is as tremendously hard as ordinary people can never imitate.
Direction of your effort
Of course, it is not easy that you can win success if you try hard. Is a person who make effort for 10001 hours better than who make effort for 10000 hours? Of course not. Direction of effort will decide the outcome. You must need intelligence to learn advantages from your failure. People who can repeat the cycle "effort→failure→effort" for correcting direction of effort must grow fast.People who are in correct direction by chance from the beginning are lucky but most of people fail to choose the direction if learning by themselves. Especially in case of sports, Learning from a good instructor is essential to make a best results. It won't serve the purpose if people don't recognized your result achieved by your potential ability.
After all, the wall of 10000 hours is only the requirement for success and this condition is not enough to reach success. However in my personal experience, even if your direction is not correct to make forward, you should keep challenging until you notice this is incorrect. The time and effort put into working towards your objective will absolutely not betray you.
At some points , you will definitely face at the moment that things are going from bad to worse but what support you then is your spirit that drove you to make effort continuously.
You should keep challenging and making effort until you win success. Especially about the field of business, maiking effort is more easily connecting to your results than that of sports and artistic things.