Paying Your Dues: 10,000 Hours - Outliers Part 3 091003

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Malcolm Gladwells Outliers: The Story of Success challenges assumptions about innate genius and natural-born talent. Through a series of detailed examples, Gladwell explains away these gifts by attributing them to practice, timing, circumstance, upbringing, culture, and opportunity. In other words, those really smart, successful people we admire—Mozart, Bill Gates, the Beatles—werent born with natural talent. Instead, they had the right

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upbringing, were in the right place at the right time, and through 10,000 hours of hard work and a few lucky opportunities, landed success.

[dansidecar]

ehh, its all about connections folks. you got to know somebody to get the things u want in life.. dont kid yourself.. sad but true....

[kevkawiconcours]

call paul sr. at oarnge county choppers. new york st

[July132006]

You think your friend with a 6 figure income, a house, nice family and several bikes as successful, but he may consider his boss who has a 7 figure income, 2 homes, a family & mistress & exotic cars successful, and then a coworker with low 5 figure income, apartment and a scooter would consider you successful. So, who's to say who is successful...M Gladwell?. It's a good toilet room book. What I'm trying to say is don't take it too seriously, life/happiness isn't(shouldn't be) defined by others.

[dg4rez]

Ok.. so you said success doesn't happen from hard work, it comes from being in the right place at the right time... Then... now your saying, its hard work thru 10,000 hours.

I know plenty of successful people, and I can say, its connections. Your not going as far as you can go, without making connections. Your might have been the one getting the promotions, if you made a connection with the boss. For the person stood out more cause he made the first connection, by being a recruiter

[dg4rez]

Even say a doctor; its not a president or something like that, so would think it didn't need connects to get there; got to become a doctor cause he made a connection, or appealed to a banker, to give him the loan to go to school, or had the connection of more well off parents, willing to invest in his future.

But your not going to be able to sell much of a book, off saying your screwed without connections.

Got to be well rounded, Connections, hard work, right place / time / career path

[Spencerian]

dg4rez - I'm not saying you're screwed without connections. I do have to say that I was forced to pick up other skill sets and develop a knack for making connections because of my disadvantage. As for the doctor, how did he become a doctor?  If he was never able to graduate high school, he would never had gone to university. This is what the book discusses - a forensic study on how success actually occurs.

[Spencerian]

dg4rez - One of the key ingredients is hard work. However, just having hard work alone isn't enough. That's what the book says, and I agree with that. You need other ingredients. I can't just condense the entire book here in just a few minutes. After all, there's hours and hours of content that valid.

[dg4rez]

true, I just wanted to touch on the fact, you usually do need connections =P

[strictlyformyninja]

LOL, I was expecting you to say firsty first lol.

[strictlyformyninja]

Rob...