Ian K said...

The Beatles, Donald Bradman and Bill Gates all spent ~ 10,000 hrs becoming the best at their trade. It's become the accepted number for the amount of practice required. Easy for a soccer player, just need a bit of room to practice dribbling every spare minute from the age of 10. But wind being so fickle, is it possible for a windsurfer? If not how good would we be if we could?

My estimate, at about 100 hrs a year for 3 decades is only about 3,000 hrs. But I think it was intended that you fit all the practice in just one of your most youthful decades.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outliers(book)


Not true there are stacks of golfers out there who have spent more time than that trying to perfect their game and are still clueless.