10,000 Hour Rule

An expert is someone who has been interested in something for an extended period of time, and has worked in this specific interest for a substantial period of their life; this substantial period being about 10,ooo hours worth. Being an expert is always great, but it is most advantageous when you can be an expert and be "rewarded by the rest of society" because of the unique opportunity you are presented with to work really hard and seized it. On the flip side it can be bad to be an expert when there is no opportunity for the advancement of the expertise. For instance, Bill Gates and Bill Joy both had the opportunity to advance their expertise into a mjor software company and the internet itself because at that time there was no one else who had the extensive knowledge and drive to actually create something that was so out there and nonsecure.

There are many things that I would like to become an expert in, but so does everyone else. It is also pretty outlandish to think that I would be able to log the 10,000 hours necessary for everything that I would want to do to be an expert in them. However, my one true passion is golf and I am looking to become an expert in the entirety of the industry. One niche that I have realized about golf though is that it presents an interesting opportunity for networking as well. If this has shown me one thing it's that anyone from any business realm uses golf as a way of socializing. The opportunity that presents itself here is to gain as much knowledge about general business to combine something that I have a passion for, golf, and something that I have developed a great liking of, which is business. My end goal is to own and operate golf courses nationally and internationally. Once I have reached a point of success through expansion is when I will know that I achieved the expertise that I was looking to gain.