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“Practice isn't the thing you do once you're good. It's the thing you do that makes you good.”
― Outliers: The Story of Success
― Outliers: The Story of Success
“Truly successful decision-making relies on a balance between deliberate and instinctive thinking.”
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“It is those who are successful, in other words, who are most likely to be given the kinds of special opportunities that lead to further success. It’s the rich who get the biggest tax breaks. It’s the best students who get the best teaching and most attention. And it’s the biggest nine- and ten-year-olds who get the most coaching and practice. Success is the result of what sociologists like to call “accumulative advantage.”
― Outliers: The Story of Success
― Outliers: The Story of Success
“Good writing does not succeed or fail on the strength of its ability to persuade. It succeeds or fails on the strength of its ability to engage you, to make you think, to give you a glimpse into someone else's head.”
― What the Dog Saw and Other Adventures
― What the Dog Saw and Other Adventures
“In fact, researchers have settled on what they believe is the magic number for true expertise: ten thousand hours.”
― Outliers: The Story of Success
― Outliers: The Story of Success
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