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Outliers - Is Success Luck or Hard Work?
Motivation Minute
English - September 29, 2017 16:00 - 35 minutes - 38.6 MB - ★★★★★ - 34 ratingsBusiness News News Education books business entrepreneur Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Key Points:
Outliers are individuals with far above-average talents Becoming an outlier requires tremendous dedication - over 10,000 hours of hard work External factors (current events, ethnicity, family wealth levels, societal norms) also impact who outliers are
#1 Takeaway: Becoming an outlier requires balancing taking advantage of opportunities and investing personal effort.
Outliers (Malcolm Gladwell) - http://amzn.to/2fKnY18
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People (Stephen Covey) - http://amzn.to/2wZKQ2i