The 10,000 hours rule
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BBC
4.6 • 3.7K Ratings
🗓️ 1 March 2014
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
Becoming a pro on practice alone – is that possible? Or do you need innate talent? After reading books promoting the idea, a photographer with no natural talent explains how he is practising for 10,000, hours to become a professional golfer. We hear David Epstein, author of 'The Sports Gene', and Malcolm Gladwell, author of 'Outliers' explain their views on whether you need innate ability. This programme was first broadcast on the BBC World Service.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the short edition of Morales. |
| 0:02.0 | First broadcast on the BBC World Service. |
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| 0:18.0 | Hello and welcome to Morales on the BBC World Service. |
| 0:22.0 | I'm Ben Carter and this is Dan McLaughlin. |
| 0:26.0 | The idea came back in 2009 |
| 0:28.0 | as visiting my brother in Omaha, Nebraska. |
| 0:30.0 | And we decided to play a par three, nine hole course, |
| 0:33.0 | which is, you know, par 27. |
| 0:35.0 | And I had never really been on a golf course |
| 0:37.0 | and went out and shot about a 57, |
| 0:39.0 | which is horrible. |
| 0:41.0 | It's 30 over par on an easy, you know, nine hole course. |
| 0:44.0 | Back in 2009, |
| 0:46.0 | Dan was a horrible golfer. |
| 0:48.0 | He's quite a lot better now. |
| 0:50.0 | And in this program, we're going to find out why. |
| 0:53.0 | And to do that, I have to take you all the way back to 1993. |
| 0:58.0 | Whitney Houston was dominating the charts. |
| 1:01.0 | Bill Clinton was a brand new president |
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