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  • When an organization’s WHY goes fuzzy with time , it perishes.This is why

    Adopted from the following great insight shared by Simon Sinek from his book Start With Why

    All organizations start with WHY, but only the great ones keep their WHY clear year after year. Those who forget WHY they were founded show up to the race every day to outdo someone else instead of to outdo themselves. The pursuit, for those who lose sight of WHY they are running the race, is for the medal or to beat someone else.”

  • The secret sauce behind every ACHIEVEMENT is this

    Adopted from the following great insight shared by Malcolm Gladwell from the book Outliers

    Achievement is talent plus preparation.”

  • Do not relate SUCCESS and LUCK , this explains why

    Adopted from the following great insight shared by Malcolm Gladwell from the book Outliers

    Success is not a random act. It arises out of a predictable and powerful set of circumstances and opportunities.”

  • Money and fulfillment are not related , this explains why

    Adopted from the following great insight shared by Malcolm Gladwell from the book Outliers

    It’s not how much money we make that ultimately makes us happy between nine and five. It’s whether or not our work fulfills us. Being a teacher is meaningful.

  • Ten thousand hours of deliberate practice , a key step towards expertise

    Adopted from the following great insight shared by Malcolm Gladwell from the book Outliers

    Researchers have settled on what they believe is the magic number for true expertise: ten thousand hours.”

  • Do you believe in a born GENIUS?This insight will blow your mind

    Adopted from the following great insight shared by Malcolm Gladwell from the book Outliers

    We are so caught in the myths of the best and the brightest and the self-made that we think outliers spring naturally from the earth. We look at the young Bill Gates and marvel that our world allowed that thirteen-year-old to become a fabulously successful entrepreneur. But that’s the wrong lesson. Our world only allowed one thirteen-year-old unlimited access to a time sharing terminal in 1968. If a million teenagers had been given the same opportunity, how many more Microsofts would we have today?”

  • This is why “hard work with meaning” is special

    Adopted from the following great insight shared by Malcolm Gladwell from the book Outliers

    Hard work is a prison sentence only if it does not have meaning. Once it does, it becomes the kind of thing that makes you grab your wife around the waist and dance a jig.”

  • This characterizes office work of fulfilled individuals

    Adopted from the following great insight shared by Malcolm Gladwell from the book Outliers

    Those three things – autonomy, complexity, and a connection between effort and reward – are, most people will agree, the three qualities that work has to have if it is to be satisfying.”

  • Scientific truth on factors that shape our personality

    Adopted from the following great insight shared by Malcolm Gladwell from the book Outliers

    When and where you are born, what your parents did for a living, and what the circumstances of your upbringing were make a significant difference in how well you do in the world.”

  • Man is an adaptable animal as the great man highlights here

    Adopted from the following great insight shared by Malcolm Gladwell from the book Outliers

    The values of the world we inhabit and the people we surround ourselves with have a profound effect on who we are.”