Malcolm Gladwell's Outliers

Malcolm Gladwell's latest book, "Outliers" should be on the must read list for golfers looking to get seriously good.

Gladwell studied the backgrounds of many successful people and discovered through his research that their success had less to do with natural talent and more to do with work ethic and circumstance.

When, where and who who you are born to, the people that influence you etc played a telling role in these stories of success. However, the other determinant of success was also a major contributor.

Skill honed by 10,000 hours of work was the other crucial component of success. The dividing line between the bad, good and great was 10,000 hours of practice. No matter the skill in question, proficiency was not reached until one had 10,000 hours of practice under their belt. That's 50 hours per week for 4 years straight.

The next time you wonder why you are not as good as you thought you should, think about Gladwell's 10,000 hour discovery.