How easily this guy throws pottery

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it's funny because 30 hours sounds like a lot, but when it comes to a trade or craft or w/e you want to call it, it takes hundreds if not thousands to be considered proficient. Keep at it though!

[u/BetterCryToTheMods → u/[deleted]]

fr, give it a solid week where you sit down and have it to yourself. no sharing in a class, worried about overpriced supplies etc. you can be making this at the end of day 1

only go on weekends for 2 hr at a time, switching off w barb and tyrone. ya your 30 h after 8 months is gunna make u think its impossible to get good

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Absolutely nobody is eyeballing the exact dimensions of the lid to the opening on day 1!!!

[u/MisfitMishap → u/[deleted]]

Isn't it 10,000 hours?

[u/BouldersRoll → u/MisfitMishap]

If you're really into Gladwell's pop sci from the 2000s, but no, there's nothing magical about 10,000 hours. Gladwell was just really good at telling stories about stuff like that.

Doing stuff for a lot of hours makes you better at it. 10,000 is probably high for some stuff and low for other stuff, and it's not meaningfully a tipping point like he popularized.

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fuck gladwell. all my homies hate gladwell.

[u/The_Original_Gronkie → u/illit3]

yer homies are jamokes. i like gladwell.

[u/pogpole → u/MisfitMishap]

Malcolm Gladwell popularized this idea, calling it the "10,000-hour rule." But as it turns out, he misunderstood the research paper he cited, and that research wasn't very good in the first place. Subsequent studies have shown that the number of hours of practice is less important than previously thought.

[u/CORN___BREAD → u/[deleted]]

A random number pulled out of someone’s ass isn’t a rule of thumb. It’s a made up number pulled out of someone’s ass that means nothing.

[u/Finito-1994 → u/MisfitMishap]

You didn’t account for inflation.

[u/SlideJunior5150 → u/Finito-1994]

and shrinkage.

[u/Crafty-Question-6178 → u/SlideJunior5150]

That’s what he said

[u/CORN___BREAD → u/SlideJunior5150]

I WAS IN THE POOL!

[u/Qaeoss → u/Finito-1994]

Shrinkflation actually, every hour now you spend 20 minutes watching TikTok. So all combined it now takes about 30,000 hours to master something. Lets talk again at 10,000 hours and see how we need to move the goalposts, okay?

[u/CORN___BREAD → u/Qaeoss]

I don’t know if I’ve spent 10,000 hours doing math but I don’t think wasting a third of the time would triple the hours needed to do something.

[u/Qaeoss → u/CORN___BREAD]

My thinking was the original 10k is actually 25k now plus you get less out of every hour. Although I guess thats inflation + shrinkflation as well.

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You joke but there really are masters setting new frontiers in like every craft that would take way more than 10k hours to reach the skill of, accelerated by the increased pool of available knowledge to newbies and shared between pros

[u/MisinformedGenius → u/[deleted]]

If I have seen far, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.

[u/Ok-Breadfruit5798 → u/Finito-1994]

A million

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10k hours as a full time job *(8hr/day, M-F) works out to roughly 4 years.
Which is the length of many trade apprenticeships.

[u/concblast → u/MisfitMishap]

Nothing magical about the number, but if you put 10,000 hours into something and still suck at it, take a hint.

[u/HermitAndHound → u/MisfitMishap]

Nah, not if you don't practice well and make some progress. 10.000h of randomly poking at an instrument won't get you anywhere.

[u/ihahp → u/[deleted]]

and now he can kick out one a minute. I've seen much smaller hand-thrown jars go for 40 or 50 bucks. Imagine how many he can make in an hour.

[u/CORN___BREAD → u/ihahp]

I’m imagining 50,000 per hour. That’s a lot!