{"id":794,"date":"2010-07-02T10:33:03","date_gmt":"2010-07-02T17:33:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dierschow.com\/wordpress\/?p=794"},"modified":"2010-07-02T10:33:03","modified_gmt":"2010-07-02T17:33:03","slug":"becoming-world-class","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/dierschow.com\/wordpress\/career\/becoming-world-class","title":{"rendered":"Becoming world class"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Malcolm Gladwell\u2019s book <em>Outliers: The Story of Success<\/em>, he stated  that to achieve mastery in an area, it generally takes about 10,000 hours of  serious learning, practice, and skill development.<\/p>\n<p>I think it\u2019s a valid conclusion, but there\u2019s more to the  story.<\/p>\n<p>If you want to be famous for something, to be at the forefront, you have to  establish yourself as world class. You want to be one of the best violinists?  10,000 hours. You want to make a living as a pro golfer? 10,000 hours.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/workbloom.com\/blog\/miscellaneous\/becoming-world-class\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"broken_link\">Read more on my Workbloom blog\u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Malcolm Gladwell\u2019s book Outliers: The Story of Success, he stated that to achieve mastery in an area, it generally takes about 10,000 hours of serious learning, practice, and skill <a href=\"http:\/\/dierschow.com\/wordpress\/career\/becoming-world-class\" class=\"more-link\">[&hellip;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[36,15,7,37],"class_list":{"0":"entry","1":"post","2":"publish","3":"author-carl","4":"post-794","6":"format-standard","7":"category-career","8":"post_tag-brand","9":"post_tag-career-coaching","10":"post_tag-job-change","11":"post_tag-learning"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/dierschow.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/dierschow.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/dierschow.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dierschow.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dierschow.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=794"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/dierschow.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":795,"href":"http:\/\/dierschow.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794\/revisions\/795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/dierschow.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dierschow.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dierschow.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}