than everyone without practice, a lot of it. I agree with Gladwell on the point that “Achievement is talent plus preparation” (60). This is the point of view adopted by Malcolm Gladwell in his essay “The 10,000 Hour Rule” from Outliers: The Story of Success, published in 2008. However, Gladwell and I differ on his point of view about when you need to have reached your 10,000 hours. One area where Gladwell and I agree is that “Achievement is talent
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Success is a result that we all always wonder how rock stars, world class athletes, or billionaires obtain it. But the question here is: How are these people like Bill Gates, Steve Jobs and others get there? What they have is something that psychologist like Robert Steinberg call practical intelligence. This type of intelligence is about knowing how to do something without having to provide an elaboration for it. It is addressed in the book “The Trouble with Geniuses, Part 2, Chapter 4” by the Canadian
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The Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell provides a thought-provoking spin on stories of success. Gladwell looks deeper into each person’s or group’s rise to fame. He shows that success does not occur without some sort of “help.” In other words, successful people are put in a superior situation. One of Gladwell’s many intriguing points is that ten-thousand hours of practice at something will make you world class in that particular area. This can be one area of “help” that you need to succeed. Not just anyone
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1. In Chapter 2 Gladwell claims that success is equal to one’s talents and the preparations. But the effect of talent is quite less than the preparation. With the most important thing in success is preparation. Our question is how long will this period take. Our answer leads us to 10,000 hours. The world’s professional athletes, scholars, composers are the proof of this 10,000 hours theory. Examples are as follows, hockey player that born early, Bill Gates, Bill Joy, The Beatles etc. Gladwell believes
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“How Successful People Grow” is a book about personal development. As introduced in the book, everyone has unique potential that takes growth to be fulfilled. It provides 15 effective ways and principles that catalyze intentional growth. The instructions in this book helps a lot in transforming average people into lifelong learners who keeps on gaining potential to get ahead in life. The process personally made by John C. Maxwell is summarized below. First, in becoming an intentional learner, the
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the Bercaw parents had an idea. Both full-time working parents looking for a change, The Bercaw parents decided to quit their jobs and started “full time bath bombing”. This at the time was an incredibly risky decision, but as we can tell from the success
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Failure Is Good All my life I have tried to avoid failure. I viewed failure as giving up when you have no other option. My experience with failure was changed when I was in middle school. I have always been a little bit of a perfectionist, but I could never perfect my grades in school. It was a crisp, fall day, and the school year had just started. I am sitting in my student advisory, Mrs. Elfering. The halls were full of crazy, energetic students seeing each other for the first time all summer
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What does it mean to fail harder? What does it really mean to fail? When you think of failure what do you see? No trophies and rewards? No stardom and fame? To fail- first attempt in learning. That's all ‘failure’ should be. Failure comes from an acceptance of yourself and understanding the process of imperfection. When i play volleyball, i don't just do stuff with the idea of ‘I can't make any mistakes.’ I play with the intent of making mistakes. Make the mistake, find the correction, and now practice
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Failure can often find itself as a difficult thing for many to accept as some view failure as a sign of weakness. I have always been a firm believer that what matters most is not if you get knocked down, but whether you get back up. From my time as a resident assistant, I have had my successes, but I have also experienced failure. One failure that I believe was distinct for my growth as a resident assistant dealt with an unbefitting call that I made to the Head of Hall on call while on duty. In the
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Failure is not something I take lightly. I am a very competitive person, so when I lose it hurts. Most recently I failed at a scholarship. I applied for the Coca-Cola scholarship and I did not receive it. This was the first scholarship that I ever applied for and I was confident that I was going to get it. In fact, too confident; so, when I received an email on the morning of November 15th that said I was not chosen, I was crushed. College is expensive. My family is a strong education advocate and
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