Takumi: A 60,000 Hour Story on the Survival of Human Craft
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- Runtime
- 54 mins
There is a popular theory that it takes at least 10,000 hours of focused practice for a human to become expert in any field. In Japan, there are craftspeople who go far beyond this to reach a special kind of mastery. These people are called Takumi and they devote 60,000 hours to their craft. That's 8 hours a day, 240 days a year, for over 30 years. It's an almost superhuman level of dedication to a life of repetition and no shortcuts. This film asks the question: Will human craft disappear as artificial intelligence reaches beyond our limits?
There is a popular theory that it takes at least 10,000 hours of focused practice for a human to become expert in any field. In Japan, there are craftspeople who go far beyond this to reach a special kind of mastery. These people are called Takumi and they devote 60,000 hours to their craft. That's 8 hours a day, 240 days a year, for over 30 years. It's an almost superhuman level of dedication to a life of repetition and no shortcuts. This film asks the question: Will human craft disappear as artificial intelligence reaches beyond our limits?
Cast
- Nora Atkinson
- Jon Bruner
- Martin Ford
- Shigeo Kiuchi
- Nahoko Kojima
- Neil MacGregor
- Hisato Nakahigashi
- Katsuaki Suganuma
Director
- Clay Jeter
Producers
- Rupert Maconick