Malcolm Gladwell has a new book out: “Outliers“. He’s the author of “The Tipping Point” and “Blink”, both very enjoyable and thought-provoking. The premise of this new book is that the folks we regard as exceptional at sport, or business, or some other endeavour, aren’t really any different from the rest of us, they were just in the right place at the right time, plus they had the opportunity to invest “10,000″ hours in learning a skill. Gladwell claims that it takes this amount of time to fully develop pretty much any skill, be it playing a sport or an instrument, or a business or technical ability.

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