Malcolm Gladwell Essay On 10 000 Hours

10,000 hours is that the key? In the bestseller Outliers, Malcolm Gladwell Makes a whole chapter on the 10,000 hour rule. In this essay I will be explaining my reason for being for this rule and not against. Now to start off this essay I’m going to be explaining why some people will be against me in my claim. One of these reasons is that all of the people that were used as examples in the book Outliers all had talent before they got into what they became famous in the fields they pursued. Then another reason could be that their brain will not work in the way needed to perceive how to do the work needed for what they are practicing for. While another reason could be that they simply cannot perform how. After all of these reasons, there are the people who would say that people with talent will already be better and not need practice which would make practicing seemingly pointless. Now since I have given plenty of reasons against myself, I am going to prove how and why I think this rule is pretty …show more content…
If you have the talent and you do not practice what you are talented at you will not be able to build on this talent you already have so you will not get better. I know that is common sense, but people that are talented at first will still need to practice so they can keep up with the people they are already on par with. This reason can easily be represented by Bill Joy, who is the first person mentioned in the chapter The 10,000 Hour Rule. Bill Joy is the programmer who created the Java code which could not have happened if he did not pursue coding like he did relentlessly in college. The amount of hours Joy put in gave him the practice he needed to become an expert in coding this shows on how talent needs to grow from practice since Joy was already talented in his studies at