Thursday, November 20, 2008
Malcolm Gladwell on genius
Extract from his new book 'Outliers'
Video of an interesting talk by Gladwell on the subject
His argument is that very high achievement in many fields is a combination of two things:
(1) Being born at the right time in history to give you unique opportunities
(2) Spending around 10,000 hours of hard work to gain mastery in your field
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