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Naval Ravikant - "It's not 10,000 hours. It's 10,000 iterations." · the Daily Quote - Positive Daily Inspiration and Motivational Quote of the Day

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  Podcasthero.com. Welcome to the Daily Quote, the
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  podcast designed to kick start your day in a positive way.
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  I'm your host, Andrew McGivern, and this episode is brought to
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  news should be heard. And the link is right here in
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  the show notes. Today's quote comes from Navelle
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  Ravikant, entrepreneur, Angel investor, Co founder of Angel
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  List and one of the most original and deep thinkers in
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  the world of business and philosophy.
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  A man who has a rare gift for taking a widely accepted idea
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  and flipping it in a single sentence.
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  He once said it's not 10,000 hours, it's 10,000 iterations.
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  To understand why that's so significant, you need to know
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  what he's pushing back against. In his book Outliers, Malcolm
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  Gladwell popularized what has become known as the 10,000 hour
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  rule, the idea that to achieve world class expertise in any
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  skill, you need to accumulate 10,000 hours of deliberate
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  practice. He pointed to The Beatles
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  logging 10,000 hours of live performance, Bill Gates spending
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  10,000 hours programming before the age of 13.
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  The message was galvanizing. Greatness is in the gift.
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  It's a volume of practice. Put in the hours and mastery
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  follows. It's a compelling idea, but it's
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  missing something critical. You can't get to the next level
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  in your career, your craft, or in your life by just doing the
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  same things over and over. Do what you've always done.
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  Get what you've always got. Hours spent repeating the same
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  mistakes, cementing the same patterns, practicing the same
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  flaws. Those hours don't produce
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  mastery, they produce highly skilled mediocrity.
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  The pianist who practices the wrong technique for 10,000 hours
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  doesn't become a master, they become someone who has deeply
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  embedded limitations. What Novell is pointing at is
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  the difference between passive repetition and active iteration.
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  An iteration isn't just another attempt, It's an attempt
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  followed by honest assessment on what worked, what didn't, what
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  needs to change, and then a deliberate adjustment on the
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  next attempt. The feedback loop is everything.
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  Without it, practice is just going through the motions.
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  Think about how this plays out in any craft.
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  The writer who produces 10,000 words and reads none of them
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  grows slowly. The writer who produces 1000
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  words studies them ruthlessly, identifies what's weak, and
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  rewrites with that knowledge. That writer grows fast.
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  The entrepreneur who launches a business and never examines why
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  it's struggling doesn't learn anything.
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  The one who treats every failed campaign as data, every customer
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  conversation as a signal, every stumble as a course correction?
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  That person compresses years of learning into months.
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  Since time is constant, optimizing for mastery happens
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  when you reduce the interval between iterations, not when you
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  maximize the time spent on each one.
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  Speed of learning beats the length of effort, and speed of
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  learning comes from the quality of the feedback loop you built
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  around your practice. So here's the question.
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  In the skill, the project, the craft you're currently building,
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  are you just accumulating hours or are you completing
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  iterations? Because the hours will pass
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  regardless. Time is the one thing everyone
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  has on a daily basis. What's rarer is the discipline
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  to stop, assess honestly, adjust deliberately, and go again with
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  that knowledge in hand. 10,000 iterations, each one a little
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  smarter than the last. That's not just how you get
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  good, that's how you get great. That's going to do it.
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  For today, I'm Andrew McGivern, signing off for now, but I'll be
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  back tomorrow. Same pod time, same pod
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  stationed with another daily quote.