Weekly Success Tip

Outliers

So you think you can be successful? I hate to break it to you, but you can't... without lots of work, hard work. So says Malcolm Gladwell in his new book Outliers. It presents some compelling arguments (that may be shocking to some people) about who does get to the top and who doesn't, and why.

Here's a humerous video related to it (there are a couple of profanities in the video, so please skip it if this isn't your scene), and my take below:

I know when I was growing up, all I wanted to be was a professional soccer player and all too late, I saw shows about the famed Dutch coaching system. In particular, one guy named Coerver who produced tapes on his system of creating highly skilled professional players. I remember that the methods they used and the sheer volume of training hours the Dutch kids had done by the time they were teenagers, far excelled both the methods and volume of training hours put in here in Australia. So much so, that once that base was set, we could never catch them. This is supported in the book Outliers.

In the book they look at everything from sports to computers to health to musical excellence. This sums it up where they say; "The striking thing about Ericsson's study is that he and his colleagues couldn't find any 'naturals', musicians who floated effortlessly to the top while practicing a fraction of the time their peers did. Nor could they find any 'grinds', people who worked harder than everyone else, yet just didn't have what it takes to break the top ranks."

He goes on to say; "Their research suggests that a musician has enough ability to get into a top music school, and the thing that distinguishes one performer from another is how hard he or she works."

That's it. The idea that excellence at performing a complex task requires a critical minimum level of practice surfaces again and again in studies of expertise. In fact, researchers have settled on what they believe is the magic number for true expertise: ten thousand hours.

Not what you wanted to hear? Or music to your ears? Either way, the good news is that you can still make it. 

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To Your Success!

ACTION STEP:

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