Manga Creators in the United States, and the 10,000 Hour - 10 Year Rule, and Why it Applies

Getting good at any craft, sport, skill, or art, no matter how difficult it is, whether it's drawing or writing, takes time to develop your skills in, if you're serious about it.

If you want to "automatically" and "quickly" get good at drawing manga, and you're just starting, draw manga for the next 10 years, REGARDLESS of its popularity.

The new buzz theory in science and pop psychology is the 10,000 hour rule, meaning, to practice something for years on end and master it takes a decade, 10 years, of 3 hours of work a day, for 10 years straight and very few, if any breaks.

Think very hard. Are you willing to invest 10 years of your life drawing comics. If not, throw in the towell now and walk away. Take up knitting, or at the very least, writing in a journal instead, because almost no one masters any skill in less than 10 years. However much you pursue it after that is your call.

So, see you in 2022, a Decade from Now, when we're living in an alternate reality than the one we live in now? Yeah, I thought so.