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Author: Malcolm Gladwell
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Malcolm Gladwell _ Outliers: The Story of Success
Working really hard is what successful people do...
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Malcolm Gladwell _ Outliers: The Story of Success
the 10,000hr rule is a definite key in success"
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Malcolm Gladwell _ The Tipping Point: How Little
Emotion is contagious.
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Malcolm Gladwell _ Outliers: The Story of Success
Hard work is a prison sentence only if it does not have meaning. Once it does, it becomes the kind of thing that makes you grab your wife around the waist and dance a jig. {150}
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Malcolm Gladwell _ Outliers: The Story of Success
The lesson here is very simple. But it is striking how often it is overlooked. We are so caught in the myths of the best and the brightest and the self-made that we think outliers spring naturally from the earth. We look at the young Bill Gates and marvel that our world allowed that thirteen-year-old to become a fabulously successful entrepreneur. But that's the wrong lesson. Our world only allowed one thirteen-year-old unlimited access to a time sharing terminal in 1968. If a million teenagers had been given the same opportunity, how many more Microsofts would we have today?
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Malcolm Gladwell _ The Tipping Point: How Little
To be someone's best friend requires a minimum investment of time. More than that, though, it takes emotional energy. Caring about someone deeply is exhausting.
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Malcolm Gladwell _ Outliers: The Story of Success
Once a musician has enough ability to get into a top music school, the thing that distinguishes one performer from another is how hard he or she works. That's it. And what's more, the people at the very top don't work just harder or even much harder than everyone else. They work much, much harder.
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Malcolm Gladwell _ Blink: The Power of Thinking
Insight is not a lightbulb that goes off inside our heads. It is a flickering candle that can easily be snuffed out.
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Malcolm Gladwell _ What the Dog Saw and Other
Good writing does not succeed or fail on the strength of its ability to persuade. It succeeds or fails on the strength of its ability to engage you, to make you think, to give you a glimpse into someone else's head.
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Malcolm Gladwell _ The Tipping Point: How Little
The tipping point is that magic moment when an idea, trend, or social behavior crosses a threshold, tips, and spreads like wildfire.
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Malcolm Gladwell _ Outliers: The Story of Success
In fact, researchers have settled on what they believe is the magic number for true expertise: ten thousand hours.
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Malcolm Gladwell _ Outliers: The Story of Success
It's not how much money we make that ultimately makes us happy between nine and five. It's whether or not our work fulfills us. Being a teacher is meaningful.
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