Mastery requires 10,000 hours of dedication

According to a renowned sociologist Macolm Gladwell, it takes 10,000 hours of dedication and commitment to become an expert at something. I have given it a lot of thought and have come to the conclusion that this statement checks out. 

This formula can be applied to any aspect of human life. 

• Business : Take the example of Bill Gates. He achieved those 10,000 years well before anyone due to his dedication with the ASR-33 Teletype. He would end up spending late nights and would skip class just to sit in and work on it. And today, he is bearing the result of those efforts.
  
• Sports : Who doesnt know of Tiger Woods. He has some many records and wins to his name and that too at a very young age. He started gold at the age of 2. He would spend numerous hours a day practicing golf and gained mastery at a very meagre age. 
• Marriage (Social) : According to many studies, average young couple spends about 1-2 hours of quality time with each other, which is fairly low. Now, even if they spent 10 hours/week; it would still take them 20 years to have understanding of their marriage and their mate. This very much accounts for the high divorce rates we have these days.
  

Two things can be concluded from this. 

• Its not easy to be a master at something because 10000 hours requires great dedication and commitment. If you spent 20 hours per week on something. It will still take you 10.4166 years to become perfect at it. 
  
• Its very much impossible for one person to be a master of two things in his life time. Most of us neither have the dedication nor the stamina to go through it. 

Now, I am not saying having these 10,000 hours on your side guarantees your success in this world. You also need some luck and good judgement to get on top!