{"id":3350,"date":"2011-09-24T21:03:52","date_gmt":"2011-09-24T20:03:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/?p=3350"},"modified":"2011-09-24T21:06:52","modified_gmt":"2011-09-24T20:06:52","slug":"10000_hours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2011\/09\/24\/10000_hours\/","title":{"rendered":"10,000 hours"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nPerhaps you&rsquo;ve heard the assertion that you need to put in 10,000 hours of deliberate practice to become an expert at any field. Well, here is an amazing and inspiring example I found today. Jonathan Hardesty decided that he would learn to draw and paint. He totally became an expert. And what&rsquo;s even more cool &ndash; he documented his progress in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.conceptart.org\/forums\/showthread.php?t=870\">a forum thread<\/a> spanning 7 years of work, so you can follow him on his way. Makes me wonder &ndash; what might I achieve with the same kind of dedication?\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"imagecontainer\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/Jonathan_Hardesty_1.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"imagecaption\">September 2002 (&copy; Jonathan Hardesty)<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"imagecontainer\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/Jonathan_Hardesty_2.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"imagecaption\">February 2009 (&copy; Jonathan Hardesty)<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Perhaps you&rsquo;ve heard the assertion that you need to put in 10,000 hours of deliberate practice to become an expert at any field. Well, here is an amazing and inspiring example I found today. Jonathan Hardesty decided that he would learn to draw and paint. He totally became an expert. And what&rsquo;s even more cool [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art_entertainment","category-favourites_on_the_web"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3350"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3350\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3354,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3350\/revisions\/3354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}