These may be common knowledge to everyone but me, but I was shocked twice in two days by two things I learned:
1) There's an acknowledged standard called the 10,000 hour rule. This basically says you have to practice hard for a minimum of 10,000 hours to master a sport, skill, or subject. That's 5 years of fulltime practice (and this assumes it's a subject you have talent in to begin with). I came across this while reading a blog and thought the author was making it up to make a point, but I googled it and it seems to have credibility.
2) From CBS news this morning: television programmers are known to prefer reaching a younger market. This wasn't news to me. Advertisers feel older audiences aren't affected by advertising, so they don't want to waste money that could be spent manipulating younger minds. But what I didn't know was that, if a network learns that they're starting to attract the 50+ market, they will take proactive steps to get rid of them! I knew TV was getting worse every year, but I didn't know it was deliberate.
1) There's an acknowledged standard called the 10,000 hour rule. This basically says you have to practice hard for a minimum of 10,000 hours to master a sport, skill, or subject. That's 5 years of fulltime practice (and this assumes it's a subject you have talent in to begin with). I came across this while reading a blog and thought the author was making it up to make a point, but I googled it and it seems to have credibility.
2) From CBS news this morning: television programmers are known to prefer reaching a younger market. This wasn't news to me. Advertisers feel older audiences aren't affected by advertising, so they don't want to waste money that could be spent manipulating younger minds. But what I didn't know was that, if a network learns that they're starting to attract the 50+ market, they will take proactive steps to get rid of them! I knew TV was getting worse every year, but I didn't know it was deliberate.
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