Top 5 Things I Learned from Malcolm Gladwell’s ‘Outliers’
by RollingStop
Practice Makes Perfect:
If you want to be really good at something, you need about 10,000 hours of practice. So you better find something you really enjoy because ten thousand hours amounts to about 10 years of diligent training, or fewer if you really blitz it.
Make Your Own Luck and Opportunities:
You can either carry around a two headed coin a la ‘Two-Face’, or throw yourself into various situations that allow you to meet new people and open yourself up to opportunities. Once you’ve met a new subset of cohorts, set aside your ego and ask for anything and everything. The worst they can say is “no”.
Schedule Your Babies for Success: Your children will have a better chance of success if you plan their birth. Get out your ovulation calendars and thermometers because this is going to get technical.
1. Plan to have kids when no one else is. Your children will be born in times of lower birth rates and therefore have less competition. It will be easier for them to get into the best schools, get scholarships and sought after jobs. Easy.
and 2. Pick the sport you want your child to excel at before conception. Then check the cutoff dates for little league in the sport of your choice and plan to conceive so your child is born just before the date. He or she will be bigger and stronger than other children born up to 12 months earlier. So, they will excel at an early age, make higher level teams, get exposed to better coaching… and eventually have a better chance of playing professionally.
by RollingStop
Practice Makes Perfect:
If you want to be really good at something, you need about 10,000 hours of practice. So you better find something you really enjoy because ten thousand hours amounts to about 10 years of diligent training, or fewer if you really blitz it.
Make Your Own Luck and Opportunities:
You can either carry around a two headed coin a la ‘Two-Face’, or throw yourself into various situations that allow you to meet new people and open yourself up to opportunities. Once you’ve met a new subset of cohorts, set aside your ego and ask for anything and everything. The worst they can say is “no”.
Schedule Your Babies for Success: Your children will have a better chance of success if you plan their birth. Get out your ovulation calendars and thermometers because this is going to get technical.1. Plan to have kids when no one else is. Your children will be born in times of lower birth rates and therefore have less competition. It will be easier for them to get into the best schools, get scholarships and sought after jobs. Easy.
and 2. Pick the sport you want your child to excel at before conception. Then check the cutoff dates for little league in the sport of your choice and plan to conceive so your child is born just before the date. He or she will be bigger and stronger than other children born up to 12 months earlier. So, they will excel at an early age, make higher level teams, get exposed to better coaching… and eventually have a better chance of playing professionally.
Know Your Heritage and Where You’re From:
Chances are the classic stereotypes are a least a little true of you. Use them to play up your strengths and avoid your weaknesses.
Chose Your Airline Wisely:
Avoid flying on airlines from Brazil, South Korea, Morocco, Mexico and the Philippines. Enough said.
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