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  1. Malcolm Gladwell _ Outliers: The Story of Success

    Working really hard is what successful people do...
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  2. Malcolm Gladwell _ Outliers: The Story of Success

    the 10,000hr rule is a definite key in success"
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  3. 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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  4. 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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  5. 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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  6. 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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  7. 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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  8. Malcolm Gladwell _ Outliers: The Story of Success

    No one who can rise before dawn three hundred sixty days a year fails to make his family rich.
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  9. Malcolm Gladwell _ Outliers: The Story of Success

    Achievement is talent plus preparation
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  10. Malcolm Gladwell _ Outliers: The Story of Success

    ...If you work hard enough and assert yourself, and use your mind and imagination, you can shape the world to your desires. {151}
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  11. Malcolm Gladwell _ Outliers: The Story of Success

    It is those who are successful, in other words, who are most likely to be given the kinds of special opportunities that lead to further success. It's the rich who get the biggest tax breaks. It's the best students who get the best teaching and most attention. And it's the biggest nine- and ten-year-olds who get the most coaching and practice. Success is the result of what sociologists like to call "accumulative advantage.
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  12. Malcolm Gladwell _ Outliers: The Story of Success

    Those three things - autonomy, complexity, and a connection between effort and reward - are, most people will agree, the three qualities that work has to have if it is to be satisfying.
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