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• The 10,000-hours rule says that if you look at any kind of cognitively complex field, from playing chess to being a neurosurgeon, we see this incredibly consistent pattern that you cannot be good at that unless you practice for 10,000 hours, which is roughly ten years, if you think about four hours a day.

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  Thinking, Years, Practice

  "Secrets of their success". Interview with Jennifer Reingold, archive.fortune.com. November 19, 2008.

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• Change your mind about something significant every day.

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  Mind, Significant, Changing Your Mind

  FaceBook post by Malcolm Gladwell from Jul 31, 2014

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• Innovators have to be open. They have to be able to imagine things that others cannot and be willing to challenge their own preconceptions. They also need to be conscientious. An innovator who has brilliant ideas but lacks the discipline and persistence to carry them out is merely a dreamer ... But crucially, innovators need to be disagreeable ... They are people willing to take social risks-to do things that others might disapprove of.

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  Creativity, Persistence, Ideas

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• Outlier are those who have been given opportunities-- -and who have had the strength and presence of mind to seize them.

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  Opportunity, Presence Of Mind, Given

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• What is learned out of hard work and trial is inevitably more powerful than what is learned easily.

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  Powerful, Hard Work, Trials

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• When you're an underdog, you're forced to try things you would never otherwise have attempted.

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  Trying, Underdog

  FaceBook post by Malcolm Gladwell from Nov 25, 2013

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• Incompetence annoys me. Overconfidence terrifies me.

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  Annoying, Incompetence, Overconfidence

  "Gladwell packs UTC venue". www.timesfreepress.com. October 6, 2010.

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• If you look at the careers of great entrepreneurs and you look at the moment they took their plunge, the plunge is rarely a great financial or material risk, it’s a social risk. At the moment they started their new businesses, everyone around them said ‘you’re an idiot’.

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  Careers, Entrepreneur, Risk

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• Through embracing the diversity of humans beings, we will find a sure way to true happiness.

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  Diversity, Way, True Happiness

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• The people at the top don't work just harder or even much harder than everyone else. They work much, much harder.

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  Basketball, People, Outliers

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• Success is a function of persistence and doggedness and the willingness to work hard for twenty-two minutes to make sense of something that most people would give up on after thirty seconds.

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  Giving Up, Hard Work, Persistence

  "Outliers". Book by Malcolm Gladwell, November 18, 2008.

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• Achievement is talent plus preparation

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  Success, Achievement, Preparation

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• The successful are those who have been given opportunities.

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  Successful, Opportunity, Presence Of Mind

  "Outliers". Book by Malcolm Gladwell, www.sfgate.com. November 18, 2008.

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• Success is not a function of individual talent. It's the steady accumulation of advantages. It's bound up in so many other broader circumstantial, environmental, historical, and cultural factors.

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  Historical, Environmental, Individual Talent

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• Success is a function of persistence and doggedness and the willingness to work hard.

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  Hard Work, Persistence, Function

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• Occasions when you can change your mind should be cherished, because they mean you're smarter than you were before.

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  Mean, Mind, Investing

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• Truly successful decision-making relies on a balance between deliberate and instinctive thinking.

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  Inspirational, Success, Thinking

  Malcolm Gladwell (2007). “Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking”, p.77, Hachette UK

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• We need to look at the subtle, the hidden, and the unspoken.

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  Needs, Looks, Subtle

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• Who we are cannot be separated from where we're from.

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  Success, Who We Are, Outliers

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• Emotion is contagious.

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  Success, Entrepreneur, Emotion

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• Insight is not a lightbulb that goes off inside our heads. It is a flickering candle that can easily be snuffed out.

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  Success, Intuition, Blink

  Malcolm Gladwell (2007). “Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking”, p.68, Hachette UK

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• The trick to finding ideas is to convince yourself that everyone and everything has a story.

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  Business, Ideas, Stories

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• Incompetence is certainty in the absence of expertise. Overconfidence is certainty in the presence of expertise.

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  Absence, Incompetence, Certainty

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• People are experience-rich and theory-poor.

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  People, Experience, Rich

  "The man who can't stop thinking" by Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. November 15, 2008.

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• If you want to bring a fundamental change in people's belief and behavior...you need to create a community around them, where those new beliefs can be practiced and expressed and nurtured.

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  People, Community, Needs

  "The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference". Book by Malcolm Gladwell, www.wired.com. 2000.

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