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”
Adopted from the following great insight shared by Malcolm Gladwell from the book Outliers
“In fact, researchers have settled on what they believe is the magic number for true expertise: ten thousand hours.”
Adopted from the following great insight shared by Malcolm Gladwell from the book Outliers
“Achievement is talent plus preparation”
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.”
Adopted from the following great insight shared by Malcolm Gladwell from the book David and Goliath
“The phenomenon of relative deprivation applied to education is called—appropriately enough—the “Big Fish–Little Pond Effect.” The more elite an educational institution is, the worse students feel about their own academic abilities. Students who would be at the top of their class at a good school can easily fall to the bottom of a really good school. Students who would feel that they have mastered a subject at a good school can have the feeling that they are falling farther and farther behind in a really good school. And that feeling—as subjective and ridiculous and irrational as it may be—matters. How you feel about your abilities—your academic “self-concept”—in the context of your classroom shapes your willingness to tackle challenges and finish difficult tasks. It’s a crucial element in your motivation and confidence.”
Adopted from the following great insight shared by Malcolm Gladwell from the book David and Goliath
“The scholars who research happiness suggest that more money stops making people happier at a family income of around seventy-five thousand dollars a year. After that, what economists call “diminishing marginal returns” sets in. If your family makes seventy-five thousand and your neighbor makes a hundred thousand, that extra twenty-five thousand a year means that your neighbor can drive a nicer car and go out to eat slightly more often. But it doesn’t make your neighbor happier than you, or better equipped to do the thousands of small and large things”
Adopted from the following great insight shared by Malcolm Gladwell from the book David and Goliath
“As the playwright George Bernard Shaw once put it: “The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.”
Adopted from the following great insight shared in the book SuperFreakonomics
“People aren’t “good” or “bad.” People are people, and they respond to incentives. They can nearly always be manipulated—for good or ill—if only you find the right levers.”
Adopted from the following great insight shared in SuperFreakonomics
“People who buy annuities, it turns out, live longer than people who don’t, and not because the people who buy annuities are healthier to start with. The evidence suggests that an annuity’s steady payout provides a little extra incentive to keep chugging along.”
Adopted from the following great insight from SuperFreakonomics
“Deliberate practice has three key components: setting specific goals; obtaining immediate feedback; and concentrating as much on technique as on outcome.”