Jerry Seinfeld wrote jokes for two hours every morning for 45 years, accumulating 30,000 hours of practice in yellow legal pads. The 10,000-hour mastery rule is just a starting point. True mastery might take 100,000 hours.
I was studying Seinfeld recently. Seinfeld's now like 70 years old. He's still like in the stand-up comedy game. He's the only stand-up billionaire. And one of the things he did was he was like, every day for like the last 45 years, I wake up and my first 2 hours of the day I write. He's like, I write jokes. If you want to get good at jokes, you write jokes every day. He goes, my rule is I sit down, I don't have to write. I just can't do anything else. He has this yellow legal pad of all the pages he ever did. He literally laid them out on a road, paved the whole road. It became like a yellow brick road, basically. It's incredible.
Do you know how many hours that is? 2 hours a day for 45 years, 30,000 hours, right? Yeah. And people say it takes 10,000 hours to master something. I'm like, 10,000 hours, that's when you start. Because 10,000 hours, what is that? It's only like 8 hours a day for 4 years. Yeah, exactly. It's not that, they get crazy. I think it should be 100,000 hours, to be honest. I think 10,000 is too easy.
