10,000 hours doing what?

Malcolm Gladwell makes a good case for the 10,000 hour rule in his recent book, Outliers. The idea is that people who are truly great at something always spend at least 10,000 hours practice on it. While Gladwell is widely criticised by his supposed intellectual betters, largely for selling more books than them, the 10,000 hour rule idea certainlt seems sound.

So what did I spend 10,000 hours doing?

Primary and Secondary School. 15,000 hours. I learned to keep my head down, avoid bullying, and get acceptible grades in predictable tests on boring topics with a minimum of effort.

University 5,000 hours. Unlearning the above.

Workplace: 12,000 hours. Office politics. Processing information into useful knowledge and communicating it to people who seemed interested at the time.

So what have you broken the 10,000 hour barrier on?

The University of the Future

"My daughter is 3 years old. In October 2023, she will probably go to University. What will that university look like? Where will it be? Will it be anywhere?"

I've started another blog, looking at issues around the future of Tertiary education. It's an issue I keep running into, and thinking about, but it is firmly out of scope for this blog, and I like to keep my promises in terms of blog content and scope. Due to my correct work focus, you can expect it to be much more active than this blog for the next while, as Ihave time to flesh out some of my thought on the topic, while I'm not currently directly involved in staff support work. If you have an interest in how Universities and Tertiary sector might look as we go through the next century, do take a look, it's at: http://tertiary21.blogspot.com/