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Hey friend,
How do you do? This will be a short one
It isn’t 10,000 hours that create outliers, it is 10,000 iterations -Naval Ravikant
This writing is a fragment of the numerous conversations I had with one of my favorite persons yesterday.
Time does matters but not has much as the number of iterations.
There is a school of thought that says it takes 21 hours to get good at something. Well I will say do it 21 times and watch yourself get better at it. It is not ‘word and opposite‘, I mean doing something 21 times will take time, it is a shift of focus from duration of activity to the iteration of activity, quantity builds quality.
The equation is not so simple though, you don’t simply do it ‘21 times’ and become incredible, there are other variables in the equation. One is putting yourself in an environment that provides feedback for every iteration, two is learning from the feedback and improving the next iteration.
Marques Brownlee is a popular tech youtuber. In an interview, he was asked the secret of his success, he answered ‘You can’t do something for 10 years and not succeed at it‘. Let me rephrase his answer ‘You can’t make 100s of videos using feedback to improve on the next and not get better, soon the growth becomes exponential‘.
Beeple is a recognized artist. How did he become so good? He made art everyday for 365 days, improving with every art thanks to the gift of feedback.
If you are gonna do something ‘10,000 times‘, I guess that tells you something, you can do anything but definitely not everything. It is your responsibility to pick your games, few, in which you are gonna play ‘10,000 times‘ and get better for every time.
Iteration is a compounding game and you know what is said about compounding, ‘It is the seventh wonder of the universe‘
I am writing to myself as much as I am writing to you. I guess I need my knowledge of this to exist outside of me. I am striving to live the reality of this idea, there is knowing it, there is doing it.
Concerning my request about the tribe last week, I got no reply (getting a reply would have been the surprise I guess).
I will just build mine! 😉😉
This podcast episode just increased my drive for one
That is all, Have a good week 😁
10,000 iterations not 10,000 hours
Well done Tobi.
Perfecting something is not in the duration of the activity rather it’s in the frequency/consistency, although the aforementioned factors could be mutually dependent on each other. Learnt a lot.