![]() It's the thing you do that makes you good.” - Malcolm Gladwell “Practice isn't the thing you do once you're good. “Hard work is only a prison sentence when you lack motivation” - Malcolm Gladwell "The 10,000hr rule is a definite key in success.” - Malcolm Gladwell "To build a better world we need to replace the patchwork of lucky breaks and arbitrary advantages today that determine success.” - Malcolm Gladwell “Who we are cannot be separated from where we’re from.” - Malcolm Gladwell If a million teenagers had been given the same opportunity, how many more Microsofts would we have today?” - Malcolm Gladwell ![]() Our world only allowed one thirteen-year-old unlimited access to a time sharing terminal in 1968. We look at the young Bill Gates and marvel that our world allowed that thirteen-year-old to become a fabulously successful entrepreneur. 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. But it is striking how often it is overlooked. “I try to be unafraid of making a fool of myself.” - Malcolm Gladwell "The sense of entitlement is an attitude perfectly suited to succeeding in the modern world.” - Malcolm Gladwell "Achievement is talent plus preparation” - Malcolm Gladwell "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.” - Malcolm Gladwell Once it does, it becomes the kind of thing that makes you grab your wife around the waist and dance a jig. “Hard work is a prison sentence only if it does not have meaning. Spontaneity isn’t random.” - Malcolm Gladwell But that spontaneity is possible only when everyone first engages in hours of highly repetitive and structured practice–perfecting their shooting, dribbling, and passing and running plays over and over again–and agrees to play a carefully defined role on the court…. “Basketball is an intricate, high-speed game filled with split-second, spontaneous decisions. “To build a better world we need to replace the patchwork of lucky breaks and arbitrary advantages today that determine success-the fortunate birth dates and the happy accidents of history-with a society that provides opportunities for all.” - Malcolm Gladwell Lucky breaks don’t seem like the exception with software billionaires and rock bands and star athletes.” - Malcolm Gladwell "All the outliers we’ve looked at so far were the beneficiaries of some kind of unusual opportunity. “Don’t depend on heaven for food, but on your own two hands carrying the load.” - Malcolm Gladwell “Achievement is talent plus preparation” - Malcolm Gladwell “We cling to the idea that success is a simple function of individual merit and that the world in which we all grow up and the rules we choose to write as a society don't matter at all.” - Malcolm Gladwell We are desperately lacking in the latter.” - Malcolm Gladwell “The key to good decision making is not knowledge. It is a flickering candle that can easily be snuffed out.” - Malcolm Gladwell “Insight is not a light bulb that goes off inside our heads. “What is learned out of necessity is inevitably more powerful than the learning that comes easily.” - Malcolm Gladwell "We overlook just how large a role we all play and by 'we' I mean society in determining who makes it and who doesn't.” - Malcolm Gladwell ![]() ![]() It arises out of a predictable and powerful set of circumstances and opportunities.” - Malcolm Gladwell “Emotion is contagious.” - Malcolm Gladwell "Practical intelligence includes things like knowing what to say to whom, knowing when to say it, and knowing how to say it for maximum effect.” - Malcolm Gladwell ![]() "If you work hard enough and assert yourself, and use your mind and imagination, you can shape the world to your desires.” - Malcolm Gladwell ![]()
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