I’m doing the Password Cracking guided exercise 1.2 - hashcat is taking too long to crack the hash, the machine is timing out, I’ve tried several times.
Can you show the full command you are using? Hashcat is a funny beast, you have to get all the parameters right 
hashcat -a 3 -m 1410 -i hash3.txt ?a?a?a?a?a?a?a?a?a?a