10,000 hours.

I heard somewhere that to become a master at something, anything, you have to spend 10,000 hours doing it. After 10,000 hours of practice practice practice, it  finally clicks for your mind or your body and you are able to do whatever it is, proficiently. That is 1.14 years  straight  of doing something, no sleeping no eating,  no resting, just doing. That is 4.8 years of working at something for 8 hours a day, 5 days a week, 52  weeks  a year. If only I had that kind of free time and dedication.

Have  I ever spent  that much time doing anything? No. Unless you count sleeping. By my brief calculations I've spent close  to 60,000 hours sleeping. I'm definitely a master at sleeping. But I'm not a master at anything else. I've put thousands of hours into reading, writing, video games, school, sports and all  of the other things that I fill my life with, but I've spread them out so much that I'm not a master at any one thing. It's almost disappointing to think that if  I would have figured this out when I was much younger, I could be a professional...something already. Musician. Artist. Sports player. Writer. Skateboarder. Comedian. Unfortunately, I'm not.

I can become good at anything that  I put my mind to. I know it sounds cliche, but it's true. I've  done it before. Unfortunately, there literally isn't enough time in my life to become a master at all of the things I want to master. I have a long list. Maybe I'll knock a few of them out before I grow old and wither away.