If you practiced basketball for 10,000 hours then you would be fucking awesome, regardless of having a contract.
The right things don't exist... or have we already forgotten the whole "do what you love" concept?
The right things don't exist... or have we already forgotten the whole "do what you love" concept?
What you do should be at the intersection of what you love and what you're good at.
Spend 20 hours each doing 10 different things, and then pick 2-3 of them to spend 200 hours doing. Then pick the one. While it may take 10,000 hours to be truly awesome, you can probably get a sense of being "good" at something in a much smaller amount of time.