Adopted from the following great insight shared by Daniel Pink from the book Drive
“We have three innate psychological needs—competence, autonomy, and relatedness. When those needs are satisfied, we’re motivated, productive, and happy.”
Category: Motivational
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This is why most people resort to shortcuts..
Adopted from the following great insight shared by Daniel Pink from the book Drive
“The problem with making an extrinsic reward the only destination that matters is that some people will choose the quickest route there, even if it means taking the low road. Indeed, most of the scandals and misbehavior that have seemed endemic to modern life involve shortcuts.”
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The growing importance of PRACTICAL INTELLIGENCE!!
Adopted from the following great insight shared by Malcolm Gladwell from the book Outliers
“Practical intelligence is practical in nature: that is, it’s now knowledge for its own sake. It’s knowledge that helps you read situations correctly and get what you want.”
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The importance of PRACTICE!!
Adopted from the following great insight shared by Malcolm Gladwell from the book Outliers
“Practice isn’t the thing you do once you’re good. It’s the thing you do that makes you good.”
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Is INNATE TALENT the only prerequisite for true ACHIEVEMENT?
Adopted from the following great insight shared by Malcolm Gladwell from the book Outliers
“Achievement is talent plus preparation. The problem with this view is that the closer psychologists look at the careers of the gifted, the smaller the role innate talent seems to play and the bigger the role preparation seems to play”
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What makes JEWS so SUCCESSFUL?
Adopted from the following great insight shared by Malcolm Gladwell from the book Outliers
“The conventional explanation for Jewish success, of course, is that Jews come from a literate, intellectual culture. They are famously “the people of the book.” There is surely something to that. But it wasn’t just the children of rabbis who went to law school. It was the children of garment workers. And their critical advantage in climbing the professional ladder wasn’t the intellectual rigor you get from studying the Talmud. It was the practical intelligence and savvy you get from watching your father sell aprons on Hester Street.”
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When “Social Savvy” meets IQ , an OUTLIER is the outcome
Adopted from the following great insight shared by Malcolm Gladwell from the book Outliers
“IQ is a measure, to some degree, of innate ability. But social savvy is knowledge. It’s a set of skills that have to be learned. It has to come from somewhere, and the place where we seem to get these kinds of attitudes and skills is from our families.”
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This is how we define OUTLIERS!!
Adopted from the following great insight shared by Malcolm Gladwell from the book Outliers
“Outliers are those who have been given opportunities—and who have had the strength and presence of mind to seize them.”
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Ever heard about PRACTICAL INTELLIGENCE? This is what it means..
Adopted from the following great insight shared by Malcolm Gladwell from the book Outliers
“The particular skill that allows you to talk your way out of a murder rap, or convince your professor to move you from the morning to the afternoon section, is what the psychologist Robert Sternberg calls “practical intelligence.” To Sternberg, practical intelligence includes things like “knowing what to say to whom, knowing when to say it, and knowing how to say it for for maximum effect.”
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For something good to spread as a disease , this is the fundamental principle
Adopted from the following great insight shared by Malcolm Gladwell from the book Tipping Point
“That is the paradox of the epidemic: that in order to create one contagious movement, you often have to create many small movements first.”