The insight adopted from Malcolm Gladwell’s book Outliers is truly illuminating and highlights why grit, determination and doggedness has a huge role to play in SUCCESS..
“Success is a function of persistence and doggedness and the willingness to work hard for twenty-two minutes to make sense of something that most people would give up on after thirty seconds.”
Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell
Come let us pile on motivation..
The following self help and motivational insight has been adopted from Malcolm Gladwell’s book David and Goliath
“Innovators need to be disagreeable. By disagreeable, I don’t mean obnoxious or unpleasant. I mean that on that fifth dimension of the Big Five personality inventory, “agreeableness,” they tend to be on the far end of the continuum.They are people willing to take social risks—to do things that others might disapprove of.”
This is why those who innovate are not afraid to challenge the STATUS QUO.
The following self help and motivational insight has been adopted from Malcolm Gladwell’s 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.”
Hence needless to say most renowned artists end up being unreasonable..
The following self help and motivational insight has been adopted from Malcolm Gladwell’s 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.”
This is why great leaders create communities.
The following self help and motivational insight has been adopted from Malcolm Gladwell’s book The 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.”
Hence if you have found a true friend , consider yourself very lucky.