Outliers
Which has led me to believe that anyone can do anything. As long as three conditions exist: You want to achieve it. You believe you can achieve it. You enjoy trying to achieve it. We often think we need only the first two, but it’s the third condition that’s most important. The trying is the day-to-day reality. And trying to achieve something is ve
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People who truly love what they do and who think their work is meaningful have a distinct advantage when they arrive at work every day. They throw their best effort into their jobs, and it makes them very good at what they do.
Clayton M. Christensen • How Will You Measure Your Life?
Of course the game is rigged. Even many enthusiastic capitalists, these days, will concede that a lot of people are born on third base, that preexisting familial advantage can play a huge role in monetary success and success in any given field. Of course chance influences everything we do within our various systems of achievement. (I know someone w... See more
Freddie DeBoer • Hard Work is Only Sometimes Necessary and Never Sufficient, But What Else Can You Do?
His conclusion was simple and largely irrefutable. In diagnosing the economic success or failure of individuals, he concluded that “time perspective” was the overwhelmingly important factor. Banfield divided society into seven classes from the lowest to the highest: lower-lower class; upper-lower class; lower-middle class; middle-middle class; uppe
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