I am constantly learning as a blogger. I would say I’ve only been blogging as a year. I got my feet wet on my other blog, The Uncanny Kevin Douglas. (For the comic book nerd in you.) My writing is still, okay, but I’m learning more and more each day. In the past, I thought that if I read more, my reading would get better as a result. (Yes, young Kevin was a naïve soul. God bless him.) But, eventually, I got it that in order to be a better writer, you have to WRITE more. There is no such thing as osmosis, here. The brilliant Malcolm Gladwell, author of the best selling book Outliers: The Story of Success, (required reading for all entrepreneurs) talks about this. Well, not writing per se, but anything people are good at doing takes practice.
Gladwell states it usually takes about 10,000 hours of a chosen vocation, (writing, playing hockey, studying math, learning a computer language, etc.), to be considered an expert, or Olympic level athlete. So, in order for me to, say be considered a top-tier writer, I would need to have practiced writing 10,000 hours- MINIMUM! So think about it like this. Say it takes you 1 hour to produce a quality 500-750 word blog post (on average). You would need to write 10,000 posts to be considered an expert blogger. Now, I’ve written a lot of essays and reports for school. But, I don’t think I’ve written 10,000 hours or if I ever will.
The point of the matter being, if you ever want to be successful in internet business, you’re going to have to practice, practice, practice. Rinse and repeat.
P.S. This is an oldie, but it never gets old. If you’ve never seen the video of NBA basketball superstar Allen Iverson and his infamous rant regarding practicing with his Philadelphia 76ers team before games, treat yourself to it now. This is classic.
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