Technically, it takes 10,000 hours to master any task. If you calculate it, that is approximately 1 1/8 years straight of doing something over and over again. 10,000 hours: That's 416 days. Doing something straight for over a year without stopping will get a person to excel at anything.
IN retrospect, there are few things that humans have master by 17 years of age. In fact, very quickly (as in, a matter of a few years), all humans master the tasks of:
Breathing
Sleeping
Eating
Walking
And....that's about it. Unless you happen to be a prodigy, or were started on something in the early years of your life, there is not much that teenagers could say they were masters at. A little disappointing, but logical. As a student, it seems like studying or doing homework should be an easier task after 12 years of it, but that being said, the difficulty of the homework increased, and the material changed.
However, I think it is interesting that the thing getting mastered first are the tasks that are key to survival. Obviously, you breathe all the time to get oxygen to your body. You eat and sleep to gain and restore energy, and you walk to transport from one place to another. If it wasn't for emotions, that would really be all that was needed. Makes sense, I suppose.
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