On 2012-01-22 23:01, BillMcCloskey wrote:
The 10,000 hour rule was based on a book by Malcom Gladwell. Personally I don't buy any of Malcom's theory's but it is a widely accepted and you can read his ideas on this in his latest book...

On 2012-01-22 23:01, BillMcCloskey wrote:
The 10,000 hour rule is based on the time it takes to master a subject, not a part of the subject.

On 2012-01-22 23:01, BillMcCloskey wrote:
So to be a master at magic, one would spend 10,000 hours on it (not on each sleight). Therefore, practicing 2 hours a day, it should take you 13 year to be a master at magic.

On 2012-01-22 22:03, BillMcCloskey wrote:
French,

Let me illustrate what I mean. I've spent the last few hours building a web site the will eventually house a record of every trick, effect, slight, book, DVD, magazine I own, all cross referenced and clickable. It will include my own transcriptions and notes of every book I own. I think eventually, this will be an amazing resource for me. It takes time to do that, but the value to me is inestimable.

Now let's look at the the drip drip drip of time. They say it takes 10,000 hours of diligent practice to become a master at something.

Let's imagine you have 2 hours a day to devote to magic. You sleep 8 hours, you work 8 hours, you have a personal life and if you can scrape together two solid hours of magic time in a day, I'd say you are doing pretty good.

Now let's look at the time taken up posting on this forum. I'll use your posts as an example but again, nothing against you, just to illustrate how much time it takes up.

Let's be generous and say each post represents 10 minutes: you have to logon, read the other posts, respond, maybe check out some books for sale, etc. But each post represents on average 10 minutes of your day. Let's do some rounding to make the math easier and for arguement sake lets say you posted 600 posts in a 3 month period. At 10 minutes a post, that is 6,000 minutes posting. Divide by 60 minutes and that is 100 hours of time taken up posting. At 2 hours a day, that is 50 days of your available 90 days over the last 3 months that are taken up with posting, or more than half your available magic hours are devoted to things like arguing if there should be a pledge or not and what that means, and responding to all the people who say that is foolish and all the people who think that people who say it is foolish, are foolish.

What could you do with that 50 days. Do you think that if you spent 50 out of 90 days prefecting your pass that that would be a good thing? how many great tricks do you think you could learn in that 50 days that instead you spent here?

Time drips drips drips away. and before you know it, they are nailing the coffin lid down and you still never created your OWN Triump, your own miracle. In the course of year those 50 days become 200 days. 200 days wasted out of a year posting innocuous things on this forum that could be spent building a routine, and act, a career.... a life.

And let me ask you, do you think Marlo, Vernon, anyone who you admire would be where they got to by wasting 200 days out of the year posting on magic forums?

On 2012-01-23 04:45, Merc Man wrote:
- I've cut down from 40+ cigs a day to around 12

On 2012-01-23 04:56, Roger Kelly wrote:
Bal, your finger stuck on the 'return' button mate?

Go and treat yersen to a new pooter with that redundancy pay-out.

On 2012-01-23 05:25, FrenchDrop wrote:

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On 2012-01-23 04:56, Roger Kelly wrote:
Bal, your finger stuck on the 'return' button mate?

Go and treat yersen to a new pooter with that redundancy pay-out.

"Have you tried turning it off and back on again?"

Just a question - where did the term 'fag' come from in the U.S. when referring to gay blokes? I haven't a clue why us Brits nickname cigs as fags but them term has been a slang word for donkeys years (whatever donkeys years are)!