Expertise

"...the emerging picture from such studies is that ten thousand hours of practice is required to achieve the level of mastery associated with being a world-class expert- in anything....Ten thousand hours is equivalent to roughly three hours a day, or twenty hours a week, of practice over ten years...

The ten-thousand-hours theory is consistent with what we know about how the brain learns. Learning requires the assimilation and consolidation of information in neural tissue. The more experiences we have with something, the stronger the memory/learning trace for that experience becomes...

Memory strength is also a function of how much we care about the experience. Neurochemical tags associated with memories mark them for importance, and we tend to code as important things that carry with them a lot of emotion, either positive or negative...Caring may, in part, account for some of the early differences we see in how quickly people acquire new skills..."

- This is your Brain on Music - Daniel Levitin

Aristotle: "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence is then not an act, but a habit."

So let's practice!!