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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.”

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 kindsContinue reading “This is why Emotional Quotient is not an inborn skill..”

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, practicalContinue reading “The modern day EMOTIONAL QUOTIENT demands PRACTICAL INTELLIGENCE..this is why”

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

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.”