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I have just read a review in the weekend paper of Matthew Syed's BOUNCE: How Champions Are Made. Its thesis is that champions are made through long hours of practice, even where people were born with talent for a particular vocation.
Syed appears to owe a fair bit to the psychologist Anders Ericsson who developed the thesis that 10,000 hours of practice or training are needed to become truly good at something. Music is in his view no exception.
Think about it: if you were to practice an instrument for three hours a day every day it would take you about nine years to get to level where, presumably, you might get considered for an audition with a major orchestra.
Now, most of us probably have no intention of getting to that level, but Ericsson's findings bring out clearly the long-term benefits to be obtained from consistent practice and playing.
Syed appears to owe a fair bit to the psychologist Anders Ericsson who developed the thesis that 10,000 hours of practice or training are needed to become truly good at something. Music is in his view no exception.
Think about it: if you were to practice an instrument for three hours a day every day it would take you about nine years to get to level where, presumably, you might get considered for an audition with a major orchestra.
Now, most of us probably have no intention of getting to that level, but Ericsson's findings bring out clearly the long-term benefits to be obtained from consistent practice and playing.