10,000 hours practise

I am very often asked where I learned to teach/coach? University? What books did I read? Etc, etc. I don't know if people quite believe me when I give them my simple answer - but it is in fact, the plain and simple truth - I have taught around 25,000 classes - and I imagine that most people, if they had taught 10,000 classes or more, would have worked out a lot of things about teaching.
there are several things that most (so-called) experts have in common, and one of those things is that have done at least 10,000 hours of focussed practise in their chosen area of expertise. Whether it be 10,000 hours working on fixing cars, 10,000 hours fishing for trout, 10,000 hours studying the stock-market or 10,000 hours teaching the martial arts - this is a very simple key to success and basic expertise. Couple that amount of practise with passion (you probably won't get to the 10,000 hour mark without passion) and desire, and you have yourself a simple but very WINNING formula ... so start your stop-watch and get to it. Time goes by whether we want it to or not - the rest is just about how you spend it. JBW