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Outliers:
…there is something profoundly wrong with the way we make sense of success.
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18 |
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Outliers:
Success is the result of what sociologists like to call ‘accumulative advantage.’
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30 |
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Outliers:
Because we so profoundly personalize success, we miss opportunities to lift others onto the top rung. We make rules that frustrate achievement. We prematurely write people off as failures.
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32 |
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Outliers:
The question is this: is there such a thing as innate talent? The obvious answer is yes.
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38 |
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Outliers:
…researchers have settled on what they believe is the magic number for true expertise: ten thousand hours.
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40 |
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Outliers:
Practice isn’t the thing you do once you’re good. It’s the thing you do that makes you good.
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42 |
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Outliers:
…extraordinary achievement is less about talent than it is about opportunity.
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76 |
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Outliers:
In general, the higher your [IQ] score, the more education you’ll get, the more money you’re likely to make – believe it or not – the longer you’ll live.
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79 |
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Outliers:
…general intelligence and practical intelligence are ‘orthogonal’; the presence of one doesn’t imply the presence of the other.
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101 |
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Outliers:
…social savvy is knowledge. It’s a set of skills that have to be learned… the place where we seem to get these kinds of attitudes and skills is from our families.
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102 |
