According to Malcolm Gladwell, one quality that very successful people as diverse as Bill Joy and Gordie Howe and Yo-Yo Ma share in common is that they were able to amass 10,000 hours practicing their craft by the time they were young men, ready to compete for the top positions in their field.

!0,000 hours, and not intellect, talent or other factors, seems to be the single most important factor in success, according to Gladwell. The second most important? Timing. After that comes culture (I’m paraphrasing a bit, here). Interesting… from Gladwell’s book, Outliers… 9:31:34 PM

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