Have You Spent 10,000 Hours of Your Life Writing?

Malcolm Gladwell, in his book Outliers, stated the theory that in order to master your art, you have to spend 10,000 hours in a kind of apprenticeship phase. How many hours have you spent writing in your lifetime?

Here’s a cute video about staying positive while you improve at your craft and live your life. Check out more quirky videos on the writing life from Yuvi Zalkow.

Chris Robley

About Chris Robley

Chris Robley has written 369 posts in this blog.

splits his time between the Portlands Oregon and Maine, always longing for the other. He plays music on the West Coast and writes poems on the East. His music has been praised by NPR, the LA Times, the Boston Globe, and others. Skyscraper Magazine said he is “one of the best short-story musicians to come along in quite some time.” Robley’s poetry is forthcoming in Prairie Schooner, RHINO, Pacifica Literary Review, and The Fine Line.

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