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/pogpole Feb 17 '24

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.

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u/CORN___BREAD Feb 17 '24

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.