Got Skills?

So apparently we, as humans, have the ability to become masters of absolutely anything. I mean from playing a guitar to rocking a chess game even tight rope walking. Now I have met some pretty dim people and would probably be regarded as pretty dim myself by others, which I reckon is a good thing as there is more of a "blank" canvass to work with, you know, less clutter that could hinder the formative process of becoming a Master. The problem lies in actually getting to the level of a Master... Lets say you want to be a great at ummm...ten pin bowler. Obviously you should want to show an interest and have a passion for your new skill, otherwise what is the point really. Then you have to practice. Alot. I mean a helluva lot. My girlfriend was reading a book the other night about studies done on all these amazing people that have walked the earth like the Mozart's and Einstein's of our time. The common denominator is all the practice they did. Apparently 10 000 hours worth. Such an even number blows my mind, but lets ignore that for arguments sake. So I think, right, 10 000 hours of bowling, piece of cake. It is not. An average game of ten pin takes what, an hour? maybe more if you are drinking beer at the same time? then you play every day, that's 27 years! At a cost of, ignoring inflationary measures, R40 a game? That's already R400 000. To be a Master of ten pin! Okay, so maybe ten pin was a bad example but this theory makes sense if you watch sport today. Professionalism has taken literally every game to massive new heights. You can watch games from 5 years ago and, as entertaining as it was at the time, is incomparable by today's standards. The possibility of earning huge amounts of cash has made parents and sporting agents alike to create super-humans. How this works is they grab a kid of, lets say, 4years old who has shown a natural ability to swim. They then rip this child out of its home and place it in a  concentration campesque sporting clinic and begin training. Imagine the first matrix where Neo gets plugged in..just like that but with less bandwidth. Anyway, so this kid is then trained from a very young age for 5 hours a day so that by the time he/she is 12 years old, they literally Masters of their sport. Brings new meaning to the saying, "you can't teach an old dog new tricks" probably cause the poor beast would be dead before training ended.