Malcolm Gladwell, author of The Tipping Point and Blink, has just written another book which offers an account of extraordinary over-achievers and how it is that they become extraordinary.
He argues that there’s no such thing as born genius and that the super-freaks throughout history have all had time and opportunity on their side.
10,000 hours is the time required to get right up there with Bill Joy, Bill Gates, Mozart, Steve Jobs et al. And you’ll need to have the stars of opportunity aligned in your favour too.
This extract is a good read and I’m already planning the next 10,00 hours of my life off the back of it.
By the time you’ve read it buying the book may be too much. The point is made economically here and, if you buy into the argument he make’s in Blink, this pithy extract is all you really need.
