Dan McLaughlin is undergoing an incredible self experiment.
He has set out to answer the question: could anyone (regardless of talent, age, financial means or prior ability) really become an expert at something with 10,000 hours of deliberate practice?
In this episode of The Expert Enough Show, Corbett Barr sits down with Dan McLaughlin of TheDanPlan.com to find out.
Dan is testing the 10,000 hour rule by trying to become a professional golfer through 10,000 hours of deliberate practice. His goal is to make the PGA Tour.
He’s already 3,300 hours of the way there and now has a 6 handicap (better than 93% of golfers), despite never playing a full 18 holes before he started the experiment.
Watch or listen to this episode to find out more about why (and how) he is doing it and what he has learned so far.
You won’t want to miss Dan’s story about how he has quit his job to pursue golf full-time without ANY prior experience.
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Interesting theory that seems to be working for him. I agree that talent isn’t everything and that how much work you put into something makes more of a difference.
Wonderful interview! Great questions Corbett and fantastic answers by Dan. Powerful and inspiring. This is how live your passion looks like. Thanks
Hey Corbett,
Sorry for the 404 error just got it fixed. Great and thanks for the interview done. It was excellent and provide many templates on how to be good at trading. I’m in the forex niche and mostly educating readers on the psychological and emotion aspect of trading and how to get back after a hiccup.
When Dan spoke about focusing on weakness and deliberate practise which is entirely true for the latter. However if your focus is on the weakness is very hard to get the strong part to grow better while overlapping the weak part.
Tim Ferris did mention about growing the strength while outsource the weak. So how do you see it? In trading, I notice the market provide many opportunity but only after I manage to isolate one trading system and get better at it do I manage to be profitable and that is after 7 years.
So I think I’ve already done more then 10, 000 hours?? Looking forward to more how to be expert or better at it interviews.
Are you going to interview more athletes? Or business owners?