Extract from Malcolm Gladwell's Outliers: Is there such a thing as pure genius? | Books | The GuardianFirst Faved : Nov 17 2008 by ChenFaved : 3 times (2 with notes)Viewed : 5 timesFave It!
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- kenekaplan - Dec 05 2008 | Gladwell, Outliers, Malcolm Gladwell, books, bookstack
Malcolm Gladwell's book Outliers -- that'll get you thinking!
- Chen - Nov 17 2008 | business, personal development
An interesting study on what it takes to be truly great. Spoiler: It's passion + a lot of hard work + more than average luck.
Quoted: By the age of 20, the elite performers had all totalled 10,000 hours of practice over the course of their lives. The merely good students had totalled, by contrast, 8,000 hours, and the future music teachers just over 4,000 hours.
- AdventuresInIT - Nov 15 2008 | imported:del.icio.us
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