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Outliers:
…no one – not rock stars, not professional athletes, not software billionaires, and not even geniuses – ever makes it alone.
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115 |
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Outliers:
Successful people don’t do it alone. Where they come from matters. They’re products of particular places and environments.
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119 |
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Outliers:
We tell rags-to-riches stories because we find something captivating in the idea of a lone hero battling overwhelming odds.
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120 |
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Outliers:
…three things – autonomy, complexity, and a connection between effort and reward, are, most people agree, the three qualities that work has to have if it is to be satisfying.
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149 |
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Outliers:
Hard work is a prison sentence only if it does not having meaning. Once it does, it becomes the kind of thing that makes you grab your wife around the waist and dance a jig.
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150 |
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Outliers:
…if you work hard enough and assert yourself, and use your mind and imagination, you can shape the world to your desires.
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Outliers:
Cultural legacies are powerful forces. They have deep roots and long lives.
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175 |
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Outliers:
We mitigate when we’re being polite, or when we’re ashamed or embarrassed, or when we’re being deferential to authority.
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194 |
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Outliers:
…tendencies and assumptions and reflexes handed down to us by the history of the community we grew up in, and those differences are extraordinarily specific.
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200 |
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Outliers:
Our ability to succeed at what we do is powerfully bound up with where we’re from…
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