Essay on Malcom Gladwell The Truth behind the 10,000...

The road to greatness is a long path filled with struggle and time. Based on research by the best-selling author Malcom Gladwell inside his book Outliers popularized the idea of 10,000 hours of guided practice â€Å"the magic number of greatness†(Gladwell, 47). With enough practice he said anyone could achieve any work that of a professional. While some say the 10,000 hour rule is the key to success I believe that success is based on genetics, talent, and time period. It is whether one was born with the talent, achieved it later within life or was born during the wrong time period is what makes a master out of someone. Where the 10,000 hour rule is not a truth. What is the 10,000 hour rule? Malcom Gladwell uses this rule to help explain that†¦show more content†¦It could be the best at track, or even baseball. Most professional athletes have been playing that sport since their childhood. They did not start later in the game but yet earlier than others. There are some â€Å"late bloomers† who have crushed the stereotype of the 10,000 hour rule. For example Dazzy Vance, at 31 years of age, pitcher Dazzy Vance had an embarrassing 0-8 record. Those are not what usually makes a Hall-of-Famer. â€Å"When he bloomed, it was with a dazzling Technicolor blossom. He owned National League hitters with a furious fastball, leading the league in strikeouts for seven straight seasons† (Newman, 1). It didn’t take him 10,000 hours to ‘master’ pitching like it didn’t take Fauja Singh 10,000 hours to run the best at his age. His career in marathons started in at age 89, he ran the London marathon. The Turbaned Tornados best time, 5 hours and 40 minutes when he was 92 years young at the Toronto marathon. Among his many records, he is the oldest person to run a marathon at age 100, the fastest male over the age of 90, fastest over the age of 100 to run the 5,000 meters, also the fastest over the age of 100 to run the 3,000 me ters (Newman, 10). He retired with an amazing record and not 10,000 hours under his belt. What does this say about the rule? That anyone can start something whenever one feels like and become the best at it. There can be something said for â€Å"talent† in which one is either born with or born without. This could be linked to genetics, many