Bill Gates on Expertise: 10000 Hours and a Lifetime of Fanaticism

Complete Premium video at: fora.tv Bill Gates responds to Malcolm Gladwell’s theory that it takes 10000 hours of deliberate practice to master a skill. Apart from acknowledging luck, timing and an open mind, Gates suggests that a successful person survives many cycles of attrition to make it to 10000 hours of experience. “You do have to be lucky enough, but also fanatical enough to keep going,” explains Gates. —– Microsoft founder Bill Gates leads a conversation with his father Bill Gates Senior, titled “A Conversation with My Father,” in which the pair talk about parenting, philanthropy, commerce and citizenship. Bill Gates Sr. was an attorney who co-founded his own firm and was on the board of Planned Parenthood. Since retiring from law in 1998, he has served as the co-chair of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and as director for Costco Wholesale. He’s also the author of Showing Up for Life: Thoughts on the Gifts of a Lifetime as well as Wealth and Commonwealth: Why America Should Tax Accumulated Fortunes. Bill Gates III is chairman of Microsoft Corporation, the worldwide leader in software, services and solutions that help people and businesses realize their full potential. In July 2008, Gates transitioned out of a day-to-day role in the company to spend more time on his global health and education work at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Gates continues to serve as Microsoft’s chairman and an advisor on key development projects.

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50 thoughts on “Bill Gates on Expertise: 10000 Hours and a Lifetime of Fanaticism

  1. “laziest student” -> lawyer, i don’t want to impose a prejudice view on you as i already have with a lot of lawyers e.g. politician.

  2. hey hi friend,

    thanks for sharing your experience, what you put is perfectly right. 🙂

    So you are from which place?

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  4. I completely agree with Bill’s points here, I was the laziest student in ‘high school’ (I’m British so we call it secondary school) Pretty average grades despite no revision, I didn’t immediately attend university, then one day i started to take an interest in Law and came out with a first with a average percentage of 91.5% which is unusual, and I attribute this academic success to Law being the most interesting thing, I wanted to know more about it, forums, documentary’s, success stories ect..

  5. Bill Gates is so rich and smart.
    He reminds me Lord Krishna who is the richest and the wisest.

    Glory to Lord Krishna !!!

  6. The “free” in the term free software means libre, not necessairly gratis. Most people realize it takes resources to make software, therefore not being free (gratis). Most free software advocates believe in free software because proprietary software unnecessarily restricts freedom. Software is a collection of algorithms, and algorithms are a field of mathematics. The believe proprietary software would be the same thing as having proprietary mathematics, or proprietary geometry.

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  9. Aha, Bill Gates has just in a rather roundabout way avowed that the coarse of his life -as is that of all other humans – is inexorably subjected to determinism. For not only was he born at the ‘right time’, placed in an environment most conducive to his goal, blessed with comparably brilliant friends such as Paul Allen, and so forth. In short, life is deterministic. For this reason Taoism seems more and more profound each day

  10. If anyone’s interested in really depth explanation of the 10,000 hour rule (briefly described in this video) you should definitely check out Malcolm Gladwell’s book, “Outliers”. It’ll totally make you re-think your ideas about what defines “talent” and why people become successful. Gladwell kinda overplays the timing card though (via his attempts to find the “perfect time to be born for x career”) but other than that little bit of astrology, it’s an awesome book.

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