"Achievement
is talent plus preparation. The problem with this view is that the closer psychologists
look at the careers of the gifted, the smaller the role innate talent seems to
play and the bigger the role of preparation seems to play." ~~ Malcolm Gladwell (Book: Outlier)
"Practice
isn't the thing you do once you're good. It's the thing you do that makes you
good." ~~
Malcolm Gladwell (Book: Outlier)
"Extraordinary
achievement is less about talent than it is about opportunity." ~~ Malcolm Gladwell (Book: Outlier)
"There's
a catch. The relationship between success and IQ works only up to a point. Once
someone has reached an IQ of somewhere around 120, having additional IQ points
doesn't seem to translate into any measureable real-world advantage." ~~ Malcolm Gladwell (Book: Outlier)
"We
tell rags-to-riches stories because we find something captivating in the idea
of a lone hero battling overwhelming odds." ~~ Malcolm Gladwell (Book: Outlier)
"The
sense of possibility so necessary for success comes not just from inside us or
from our parents. It comes from our time: from the particular opportunities
that our particular place in the history presents us with." ~~ Malcolm Gladwell (Book: Outlier)
"No
one -- not rock stars, not professional athletes, not software billionaires and
not even geniuses -- ever makes it alone." ~~ Malcolm Gladwell (Book: Outlier)
"We
pretend that success is exclusively a matter of individual merit. But there's
nothing in any of the histories we've looked at so far to suggest things are
that simple. These are stories, instead about people who were given a special
opportunity to work really hard and seized it and who happened to come of age
at a time when that extraordinary effort was rewarded by the rest of society.
Their success was not just of their own making. It was a product of the world
in which they grew up." ~~
Malcolm Gladwell (Book: Outlier)
"Hard
work is a prison sentence only if it does not have meaning." ~~ Malcolm Gladwell (Book: Outlier)
"Autonomy,
complexity and a connection between effort and reward-- are, most people agree,
the three qualities that work has to have if it is to be satisfying. It is not
how much money we make that ultimately makes us happy between nine and five.
It's whether our works fulfills us." ~~
Malcolm Gladwell (Book: Outlier)
"A
hint is the hardest kind of request to decode and easiest to refuse." ~~ Malcolm Gladwell (Book: Outlier)
"If
you work hard enough and assert yourself and use your mind and imagination, you
can shape the world to your desires." ~~
Malcolm Gladwell (Book: Outlier)
"We
mitigate when we're being polite, or when we're ashamed or embarrassed, or when
we're being deferential to authority." ~~
Malcolm Gladwell (Book: Outlier)
"Success
is a function of persistence and doggedness and the willingness to work hard
for twenty two minutes to make sense of something that most people would give
up on after thirty seconds." ~~
Malcolm Gladwell (Book: Outlier)
"It
is not the brightest who succeed. Nor is success simply the sum of the
decisions and efforts we make on our own behalf. It is, rather, a gift.
Outliers are those who have been given opportunities --- and who have had the
strength and presence of mind to seize the," ~~ Malcolm Gladwell (Book: Outlier)
"We
are so caught up in the myths of the best and the brightest and the self-made
that we think outliers spring naturally from the earth." ~~ Malcolm Gladwell (Book: Outlier)
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