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Why and how do successful people become successful?

To what do those business people, entrepreneurs,

athletes, artists, and writers we hear about every day owe this success?

A high intelligence, IQ from birth?

Or to be gifted from birth?

Of course, natural talent or intelligence is important, but not as much as we think.

Look.

The average person has an IQ of around 100.

Einstein's IQ was 150.

The person I'm going to talk to you about now has such an IQ that ...

... is immeasurably high by some standards and 195 by others.

Because, let alone being a scientist like Einstein,

this very intelligent person named Christopher Langan has not achieved...

...any remarkable success in his life.

So natural intelligence alone is not enough.

But what about talent?

To understand this, I will play you some music.

Has anyone heard of this piano piece before?

It sounds familiar from somewhere,

but I don't know exactly where.

To be fair It can not be considered extraordinary by musicologists

and classical music critics.

Not very good by the standards of mature composers.

If the composer of this piece had composed similar compositions

and leave it there at the beginning of his career,

we probably wouldn't even have heard his name.

But he didn't leave it there.

He continued to work tirelessly and after a quarter of a century of tempo in this way,

composed this piece.

There is probably no one who has not heard of it.

Mozart is the composer of this piece,

which means "a little night music" or "a little serenade"

if we translate it from the German original.

According to some, he is the most important musician and

the classical music composer of all time.

And why am I giving this example?

To say that Mozart was actually a talentless man?

No way.

The first piece I played may not have been liked by musicologists,

but he was just 5 years old when he composed it.

According to historians, most of the compositions he composed when

he was a child were written or corrected by his father.

His first seven concertos for piano and orchestra were largely variations or

arrangements of works by other composers of the time.

His very first original work,

which is now considered a masterpiece is No. 9. K. 271.

But when he wrote this piece,

he had been already trying to compose a concerto for ten years.

So what I am saying is talent alone is not enough.

As we see in the case of Mozart,

you need to have someone around you who will support, encourage,

and if the need be, correct you.

Even this is not enough by itself either.

You need to, for a certain period of time, devote yourself,

prepare and practice about the subject.

When we say a certain period of time,

exactly how much time are we talking about?

Scientists have an answer to this.

There are many studies on this subject,

even if I chose music, let there be no misunderstanding;

this is not just about how successful the musicians or

composers are nor how much effort they spend to be successful.

But anyway

let's continue with the same theme.

This research was done in a music academy.

Violin students at the academy were divided into 3 groups by their own professors.

The first group has stars.

Students with the potential to become world-class solo violinists.

The second group is just those who are judged to be simply good.

In the third group,

there are students who are not expected to play the violin professionally,

but intend to become music teachers in the national education system.

So, students of a music Academy are categorized into three different levels of...

success by their professors, right?

Are these students of different abilities?

No.

Because they have already passed a certain talent test to enter this school.

So, are some of them more successful than others

because they started music at different ages? Again No.

Because all of them, just like Mozart,

started music at the exact age of 5, the age given as an example in interviews etc.

Well but what is the difference between them?

This is exactly what the researchers were trying to find out.

And here's what the experts found out different for the three groups.

All of the students practiced at roughly the same rate,

two to three hours a week for the first few years.

When they reached the age of 8, some of them continued their practice hours,

whereas others started to increase them.

As you can imagine those were the students in the top group.

They practiced 6 hours a week at the age of 9,

8 hours a week at the age of 12,

16 hours a week at the age of 14,

and more than 30 hours a week at the age of 20.

Look, the school is the same school.

Is there encouragement and support? Definitely.

But the same teachers give this support to everyone.

Those who make the difference are those who play their violins knowingly and

willingly and not because they are forced to,

with the intention of achieving better.

So how much better?

Research has shown that

those in the group with the best in school ...

...had a total of 10000 hours of practice until the age of 20.

Only the good ones had 8,000 hours of practice,

and the music teachers of the future 4000 hours.

When Ericsson and his colleagues, who conducted the research,

compared not only violinists but also other instrumentalists such as amateur pianists

and professional pianists and a similar model emerged each time.

Pretty much the same time period.

This research shows that

if any student is talented enough to enter a good music school,

the most important thing that sets them apart from the others and ...

...make them World wide virtuosos is how long they practice and

spend time with their instruments.

Like I said, it's not just about music.

In order to achieve expertise in whatever field,

it is necessary to spend a certain amount of time and

actively engage in that subject,

and this certain period of time is 10,000 hours.

This is a magic number that comes up again and again in many examples and studies.

That number pops up again and again in successive studies of composers,

basketball players, writers, ice skaters, pianists, chess players, and more,

says neurologist Daniel Levitin.

We can not say that everyone who practices for this long will be equally successful,

but this is very important.

No scientist or researcher has yet met anyone who

has achieved world-class expertise in less time than this.

There is no such thing as suddenly becoming a master in a day.

Even the most successful people in the world like Sinan the great architect or

or Mozart,

has to pass through apprenticeship and journeymanship periods.

Success is gained by working for at least 10000 hours as well as things ...

...like innate talent and intelligence.

Although researches revealed the 10000 hour rule,

Malcolm Gladwell's book Outliers popularized the concept.

I had read this book from the English original when it was first published,

but since it has been more than 10 years, I realized that I forgot some points.

As I tell you,

instead of reading a lot of books,

you should read some books over and over at regular intervals,

and Outliers is such a book.

The good thing is that it has a nice translation into Turkish.

I recently vocalized this translation into an audiobook.

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In Outliers, there are striking examples of what other factors successful people...

...achieve their success with.

Because working alone is not enough.

For example, why are Asian students better at math than other students

and how does this relate to rice fields?

Again, why do pilots in some countries in Asia fail compared to other pilots?

Does it matter where you were born or live?

Is geography really your destiny?

Or yet, does your birthday affect your success in life?

Is it better for students to take long summer vacations or

just doing something in the summer?

These questions need to be thought about,

but some of them take a lifetime to find the answers to.

So we need to be inspired by those who have lived these lifetimes before us

and learn the mistakes of the ones who failed and

the successes of the ones who prevailed.

It is written in this book that no successful person can say that

I have accomplished all these things only by me and alone.

Superstar lawyers, math prodigies, and software entrepreneurs seem,

at first glance, out of the ordinary experience.

However, it is not so.

They are the work of history and society, opportunity and heritage.

Their achievements are by no means unusual or mysterious.

Some deserved, some undeserved;

some were won, some came by chance.

But they are all the product of a web of advantages and legacies that...

...make that person that person.

The people we see outside the line-beyond the line,

after all, are not outside the line at all!