The Secret of Your Success? 10,000 Hours ; Practice Really Does Make Perfect, Says a New Book. So Just Add Perspiration to Your Inspiration

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THERE'S one figure that everyone takes away from Malcolm Gladwell's new book, Outliers: 10,000 hours.

That, he says, is the difference between success and non- success, genius and mediocrity. Anyone from the Beatles to Bill Gates who has succeeded has done so on the back of at least 10,000 hours of practice. Plus, obviously, some intelligence and talent. This is an extension of his last book, Blink, in which he praised the power of intuitive snap judgments but you need to have experience to make those judgments.

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The Secret of Your Success? 10,000 Hours ; Practice Really Does Make Perfect, Says a New Book. So Just Add Perspiration to Your Inspiration

Like all the books in this peculiarly American genre, it expands a onesentence conclusion into a book, and ...

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