I have read this book a few years ago. Found it to be very insightful when it comes to successful productive people. I find myself always going back to what I have read on books that focused on self-improvement and I am always reflecting where I am in the present; and I realize that your present is never the same. It changes every time you make some kind of mental breakthrough or surrounding environment with yourself. You have to constantly relook and refocus at everything that you do in your present life. Although all success blueprints in self-improvement books have common themes, it boils down to your personal perspective on what you need to do. These self-improvement books are merely just guides.
In the book Outliers, there is a chapter on the 10,000 rule which basically says that successful people had invested at least 10,000 hours into their development of their skills. It is believed that investing 10,000 hours into whatever skill you are doing you will become most likely successful at it. What I got out of this particular chapter is that whatever skills you have invested 10,000 hours in means that you have come to a point where your particular skill has become part of your DNA. Something that you do not have to think about the skill, (technical aspect of it) you just do it naturally. Your DNA skill is inspired by your heart expressing how you feel and communicating to some kind of universal purpose. Looking at this from my perspective; a piano player who at a very young age focused mainly on piano technique to help me express myself better as a player/performer and practice many hours just exploring (improvising) on the piano has become my DNA skill. It is a personal success for me to be able to have this DNA skill to compose music.
A recent video of me just improvising being in the moment.
