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.”
Category: Motivational
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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.”
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As a LEADER , to bring about a CHANGE in BELIEF of your people , do this..
Adopted from the following great insight shared by Malcolm Gladwell from the book Tipping Point
“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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Being someone’s BEST FRIEND needs time..This is why
Adopted from the following great insight shared by Malcolm Gladwell from the book Tipping Point
“To be someone’s best friend requires a minimum investment of time. More than that, though, it takes emotional energy. Caring about someone deeply is exhausting.”
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This is what defines a TIPPING POINT!!
Adopted from the following great insight shared by Malcolm Gladwell from the book Tipping Point
“The tipping point is that magic moment when an idea, trend, or social behavior crosses a threshold, tips, and spreads like wildfire.”