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Malcolm Gladwell: Success Comes from Social Advantages

Jerome harrison

malcolm gladwell, most excellently-selling architect of the tipping point

and blink

, has a new enlist coming out called outliers: the thriller of success

. which means that in a little while people whim start asking if you’ve read it. so you need to read the following paragraph excerpted from the observer interview:”gladwell’s contention is not only that success is the result of a complicated mix of social advantages but also that the insistence that some individuals have extra-special gifts and talents, are geniuses in particular fields, or pull themselves up by their bootstraps, is incredibly destructive to society’s idea of itself. ‘no a particular,’ he says, ‘not reel stars, not professional athletes, not software billionaires, and not settle accounts geniuses - ever makes it alone.’”oh, and this one:”to in truth master any skill, he suggests, liking on diversified pieces of research, requires about 10,000 concentrated hours. if you can get those hours in early, and be in a position to exploit them, then you are an outlier.”there is also an edited extract from the register here.

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