I have been playing guitar since i was 8, practiced every day, took lessons, and eventually graduated from berklee college of music. I have put far more than 10000 hours into playing guitar, but I would not consider myself a master. Mastery is a lifelong journey, not a title to claim.

3:45 he said OVER 9000!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

1,000 hours of purposeful high-quality practice trumps 10,000 hours of physical presence going through the motions. This stupid rule makes it seem like just putting in time is enough. Structure, quality of effort and constant progress are most important.

I think self-reflection on the hours spent is ideally the path towards mastery. Either that or a coach reflects on things for you or with you and helps your progress

Just for reference, the "10,000 Hour Rule" was popularized by Malcolm Gladwell in his book "Outliers," and it was primarily based on the research of Professor Anders Ericsson. However, Ericsson has come out to say that Gladwell somewhat misinterpreted his research. The 10,000 hours is not a "rule," but an average. That number was arrived at from, among other things, a study tracking the practice habits of child violinists through adulthood. But Ericsson notes many of the best musicians in his study had accumulated "substantially fewer" hours of practice. Also, just as Coach Zahabi notes, the quality of practice counts. Ericsson is a proponent of what he calls "deliberate practice" as being what's important, not just reps or time elapsed on the clock.

Stay mindful in all actions it becomes habit, habit becomes behavior. My Sensi says, "only Perfect Practice makes perfect"!

I've only recently discovered coach Zahabi's channel and all I can say is that the amount of the amazing insights that could be applied to one's life (even if not a MMA fighter) is simply amazing. Keep up the good content, sir!

This is one of wisest things i have heard that can be used for every single thing in life. Specialy for me as a muslim, my salat is just poor quality but high quantity without any improvement for years.

Years does not mean competency. You're right on about quality.

Thanks for the upload. Bit of an eye opener for me regarding too many sloppy reps.

I've actually been listening to a lot of you and George's philosophy on training. So I typically only give about 55-60% daily. I also follow Bruce Lee's principle of not training so hard that I woud be compromised if i had to defend myself shortly after because of the way that I am currentpy living. I am thebover training type though. So I really need to watch it.

This was very helpful

It was a research to find out what makes the difference between the 10 best violin players world wide and the rest top 100. The only difference they could find was that the top 10 had practiced 10.000 hours before the age of 20.

Tjank you brother for the knowledge the insight. I work night shifts and listen to your podcast it make my njght go fast. Im already saving to bring my 2yrs old little boy to your gym when he reach the age you accept them

it's 5 years of full time work at something. this number is similar to what sport science says, which is it takes about 6 years to develop a gifted athlete into a top performer in a sport. I agree it's not an exact number, but it gets people the right idea. agree that quality of work is also just as important.

"I want as much quantity as possible without affecting my quality"

I mean this probably seems like obvious advice but for me this is absolutely life changing advice for how I approach my workouts from now on, fuckin genius this guy here

The example of 3 point shooting accuracy is surprisingly accurate for someone that doesn't know anything about it. 50% 3 point shot would be the absolute top of the league right, last I checked Steph Curry was 49.something% on 3 points. But that is in-game shooting most people will shoot significantly better in practice when you can shoot at your own pace with no one around. The training volume examples are also very accurate. Koby Bryant used to shoot 2-3 thousand made baskets everyday which would translate into 5-10 thousand tried baskets.

Then, what about the fact that I do it wrong the first time? Just quit? Where’s the line here?

I agree with the principle of quality of quantity. But I think practice should be more intentional and deliberate (hence the concept of deliberate practice). Every practice session should have some objective or goal. Practice should NEVER be passive or thoughtless. A basketball player should NEVER practice a shot without giving some thought to what he or she is doing (body mechanics, footwork, body positions, tempo, timing, rhythm, spacing, etc) This is also true with Jiujitsu or any skilled sport. In a game, competition or free play situation, the athlete shouldn't "think" about what he or she is doing; everything should be reflective and automatic. BUT in a PRACTICE it's a different story. You should think about everything you're doing in PRACTICE. Practice is the place where you WORK on things and CORRECT makes and FIGURE OUT things and make things SMOOTH/FLUID. That's why it is called PRACTICE. If you're not working on things or correcting mistakes or figuring things out or making things smooth and fluid you're not practicing!

That's about 417 full days of doing something ( but without sleep, food or toilet breaks)

Priceless information. Thank you sir

Haha interesting aproach.. thank you for sharing the knowledge

You (your mind/thoughts) are the conductor and your body is the orchestra. The human body is extremely malleable. Maybe that’s also what Bruce lee meant when he said “be like water”. It can change to many forms. Having said that, I believe that it is more important how and what you choose to learn than how long you learn for. So yeah quantity over quality.

Thank you for the the vídeo

pure gold!

Thar rule requires that you are talented

Super interesting!

Coach, if you only train when you are winning and stop as soon as you stop doing well don't you run the risk of not being able to come back when you face adversity? Since you rarely experience having to work out of a losing situation like pushing through fatigue under side control, wouldn't it then be a problem if during a fight/match you lose a round and are unable to come back?

"Quit while you're ahead"

so I was doing a simple math If I do 2 hours of jiujitsu for example 3 times a week I will do in a year around 288 hours, and what you need to get to black belt (mastery in my opinion) is around 2880 hours. that's not much. every one can do it with consistency.

Also maybe this philosophy of training is in line with yours. But in order to keep improving my shot I have to make the shots increasingly hard or otherwise I'll get worse. Meaning I have to take shots from tougher angles out of tough off the dribble sequences and deeper. Otherwise the interest and focus dies out. It allows for great creativity and doing things that haven't been done b4

I dont think you can fully master anything because of age. Someone who has done for example BJJ for 20 years, will usually be beaten technically by someone who has done it for 30 years, and that guy will be beaten by someone who has done it for 40 years... age limits mastery but the closest you can get to mastery is by beginning something at a Young age and working on it till the age where your body can still work well enough.

Don't you need to experience getting beat up too? Or else when you fight once things stop going your way you won't know what to do

It depends on aptitude and how you use your practice time. Btw.. Wilt Chamberlain was terrible at free throws (many Nba stars are). He tried everything including hiring a psychiatrist... some people reach limits... practicing with bad habits is a no-no!

Always wondered this. I keep hearing you have to roll till you are tired then when you roll you will be using pure technique and not speed and strength. I think this isn’t an intelligent way of training. Not only have you physically fatigued yourself but you have mentally fatigued and it makes it harder to absorb information. It’s better to have a plan for your workout and focus on quality of your training.

1000 hours or 100,000 hours. You get to there, when you get there.

Coach, any info on the new TimTam ? Asking for a potential xmas present

Isn’t it 10000 hours of good deliberate practise? That’s what I always heard

What if you do 10k hrs of something wrongly.?

10 000 hours if you train 4 x 1.5 h a week it's 34 years :o

@Ben Simmons

10,000 hours is like 8 hours a day for 3-4 years. Not much imo.

Hi ! First excuse me for my poor english I'm French. When you talk about stopping when the quality drops, I see the logic on it but when you begin you have no quality at all and you are out of breath before the end of the first sparring partner. When you begin Jiujitsu , to improve Bjj cardio Should we force and continue even if we are exhausted and out of breath?

Like Riddick said shoot til it feels good. Btw I'M THE GREATEST 3PT SHOOTER IN THE WORLD. Js

10,000 hrs. Is nothing but 416.6666 days

I don't believe in the 10,000 hour rule. It's too suspicious that mastery would just happen to be attained at such a perfect number.

Not True..

87%...Firas > Stephen Curry😂