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comment by AlderaanDuran
AlderaanDuran  ·  4257 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: What do you do to improve your skills?

    can you think of how the 10,000 hours model has applied to how you've improved on your personal talents?

Easily, the more I practice, the better I get. :)

I juggle, and play guitar and piano. The more time I spend doing them, the better I get. Especially juggling, because it's pure repetition and motor skills. Whereas piano and guitar require learning new songs, progressions, and incorporate a few different tasks into the mix like technique and memorization. Juggling you pretty much just practice practice and then practice some more. It's 100% muscle memory and motor skills.

EDIT: I should add, I've not practiced any of those things for anywhere near 10,000 hours obviously, it's just an expression. :)

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