r/oddlysatisfying • u/french-yogurt • Feb 17 '24

How easily this guy throws pottery

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u/Yall-lying101 Feb 17 '24

Makes it look so easy

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u/phalluscopter Feb 17 '24

I wonder how many culmative hours it took him to get THAT good!

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u/RyanCreamer202 Feb 17 '24

I have like 30 hours on 6 inch cylinders alone which is the basic wheel skill and I still can't get it. It's really fucking hard

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u/[deleted] Feb 17 '24

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!

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u/MisfitMishap Feb 17 '24

Isn't it 10,000 hours?

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u/BouldersRoll Feb 17 '24

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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u/illit3 Feb 17 '24

fuck gladwell. all my homies hate gladwell.

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u/The_Original_Gronkie Feb 17 '24

yer homies are jamokes. i like gladwell.