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Old September 23, 2012, 01:19 AM
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Default "They say if you do something for 10,000 hours, you値l get really good at it!

Great example of Sharpening your Knives... In A Business Sense...

Of Simply Digging in and {Carving} out your Own Specialized Niche! ...

Applicable to All Kinds of [Endless] other business ideas & Never-ending Opportunities...

"They say if you do something for 10,000 hours, you値l get really good at it! ...

Quick Food for Thought...

Knife sharpener carves out niche at farmers markets...
http://www.metrowestdailynews.com/ne...armers-markets

Phil
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Old September 23, 2012, 10:37 AM
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Default Re: "They say if you do something for 10,000 hours, you値l get really good at it!

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Great example of Sharpening your Knives... In A Business Sense...

Of Simply Digging in and {Carving} out your Own Specialized Niche! ...

Applicable to All Kinds of [Endless] other business ideas & Never-ending Opportunities...

"They say if you do something for 10,000 hours, you値l get really good at it! ...

Quick Food for Thought...

Knife sharpener carves out niche at farmers markets...
http://www.metrowestdailynews.com/ne...armers-markets
Thanks Phil for sharing that unusual business!

I'm currently reading "The Talent Code" by Daniel Coyle, one of several books which talks about the "10,000 hours" of practice...

It's not only the practicing which is important, but also "how" you practice. To become a true expert, it's important to keep "pushing" your limits, rather than to keep mindlessly doing the "easy stuff" over and over again... It's important to be aware of your errors, so you can keep improving them.

Knowing this and implementing it, how could you not be successful? You just have to choose the right thing to practice, which will give you most success in the future... (I would focus on things like sales skills, deal-making skills, writing skills, and so on... Others may focus on tennis and golf - though it probably helps to start practicing as a kid with those things...!)

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Dien
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Old September 23, 2012, 10:47 AM
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Default Ike Handy is a legend in Texas golf lore, one of the great amateur golfers.

Ike Handy wrote two great books on golf.

How to hit the golf ball straight.

It's the Damn Ball.

He was a golf great.

Took up the game when he was over 50. In about 3 years, with just a few hundred hours of practice, he mastered the sport, one which is considered to be one of the most difficult sports to master.

10,000 hours of hitting the ball wrongly isn't going to produce champions, only sorry AZZ golfers who can repeat their crummy swings over and over and over.

Give me a person with 500 hours of the right kind of "practice" over the grinder of time any day of the week.

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Thanks Phil for sharing that unusual business!

I'm currently reading "The Talent Code" by Daniel Coyle, one of several books which talks about the "10,000 hours" of practice...

It's not only the practicing which is important, but also "how" you practice. To become a true expert, it's important to keep "pushing" your limits, rather than to keep mindlessly doing the "easy stuff" over and over again... It's important to be aware of your errors, so you can keep improving them.

Knowing this and implementing it, how could you not be successful? You just have to choose the right thing to practice, which will give you most success in the future... (I would focus on things like sales skills, deal-making skills, writing skills, and so on... Others may focus on tennis and golf - though it probably helps to start practicing as a kid with those things...!)

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Dien
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Old September 23, 2012, 11:07 AM
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Default Do all presidents golf?

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Ike Handy wrote two great books on golf.

How to hit the golf ball straight.

It's the Damn Ball.

He was a golf great.

Took up the game when he was over 50. In about 3 years, with just a few hundred hours of practice, he mastered the sport, one which is considered to be one of the most difficult sports to master.

10,000 hours of hitting the ball wrongly isn't going to produce champions, only sorry AZZ golfers who can repeat their crummy swings over and over and over.

Give me a person with 500 hours of the right kind of "practice" over the grinder of time any day of the week.
Gordon,

Thanks for sharing that...

It proves false my claim that practicing golf or tennis for a living is only for the young'uns...

I guess you don't have to be Tiger Woods or the newly-retired Andy Roddick to make a living at sports, since there are also other ways, too (like coaching, info-products, and so on)...

One day, I'm gonna have to learn how to golf... It seems all the presidents do it (both Republicrats and Democans)...!

Top Golfing Presidents
http://www.golfdigest.com/magazine/2...sidentsranking

(Out of the last 18 presidents, it seems the only ones who didn't play golf were Herbert Hoover, Harry S. Truman, and Jimmy Carter...)

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Old September 23, 2012, 11:13 AM
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Also the book "Outliers."
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