This is the type of injury that sports medicine doctors argue is the direct result of arm overuse and sport specialization at too young an age.įindings like the birthplace effect suggest that we need to rethink the idea that kids should receive year-round training in one sport early on. It's common today for a 10-year-old baseball pitcher to need the tendon replacement surgeries for an injured elbow that were previously restricted to college and major league pitchers. In addition, playing different sports lessens the occurrence of sports-related injuries that may end an athletic career. Sampling a variety of activities lowers the likelihood of burnout in one sport and increases children's feelings of confidence because they get to see the results of their hard work in different settings. Two months later he became the number one golfer in the world. In 1997, when he was only 21, Tiger won the Masters at Augusta by the largest margin in a major championship in the 20 th century. At eighteen, he became the youngest player to ever win the United States Amateur championship, a title he kept for the next three years.
At fifteen, he became the youngest player to ever win the United States Junior Amateur championship. (“Look Daddy,” Tiger would say, “that man has a reverse pivot!”) He finally beat his father - by a single stroke, with a score of 71 - when he was eleven. That same year, he began identifying the swing flaws of players on the PGA tour. By the age of three, Tiger was playing nine hole courses, and shooting a 48. When Tiger was 18 months old, Earl started taking him to the driving range. Tiger could barely walk – and he had yet to utter a single word – but he quickly began teeing off on the Astroturf next to his father. When Tiger was nine months old, Earl sawed off the top of an old golf club. For hours on end, he would watch his father smack hundreds of balls. Tiger was captivated by the swift movement. This was where Earl practiced his golf swing, hitting balls into a soccer net after work. The story goes something like this: When Tiger Woods was an infant, his dad, Earl, moved his high chair into the garage.
Let's call this the parable of Tiger Woods. When fate was handing out skill, we got screwed.Īnd yet, the 10,000 hour rule also echoes a long-standing belief about how talent happens. Endless hours of hard work won’t compensate for our biological limitations. You and I can’t become chess grandmasters, or NBA superstars, or concert pianists, simply because we don’t have the necessary anatomy. (It's best articulated in Gladwell's excellent *Outliers *and Daniel Coyle's The Talent Code.) Although we pretend to be egalitarians, we really believe that the talented are naturally “gifted”. On the one hand, this is a deeply counter-intuitive idea. Instead, these differences reflect a life-long period of deliberate effort to improve performance.” As Ericsson wrote in his influential review article “ The Role of Deliberate Practice in the Acquisition of Expert Performance”: “The differences between expert performers and normal adults are not immutable, that is, due to genetically prescribed talent. The corollary of this rule is that that differences in talent reflect differences in the amount and style of practice, and not differences in innate ability. Anders Ericsson, a pyschologist at Florida State University, that it takes about 10,000 hours of practice before any individual can become an expert. The 10,000 hour rule has become a cliche.
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