"Outliers is nothing less than a nuclear explosion"....
I read " OUTLIERS" by Malcolm Gladwell and the first thing that came to the mind was, could this really be true. Story of success has a lengthy history of its own. And it is no feeble fable. Facts and figures hounded me over three days on completion of the book. What about the age old sayings bombarded day in day out! Books, magazines and inspirational tales of success. Vanished after 300 odd pages. Wiped out in a huge cloud of smoke and now the dust and debris lie somewhere in the periphery of my mind.
The Book has challenged the conventional thinking of ages. Proved that "individuality" after all is a collective effort and is dependant on many factors but the H.C.F is hardwork and there is no substitute to it.
In order to be the greatest Jackass or the smart-ass you got to spend ten thousand hours doing it...
That's the summation of success.
The Beatles, Mozart and many other similar awe-inspiring names had worked hard and were present at the right place at the right time. That made a huge difference to the outcome of the individual's career and the society at large. The same can also be summarized for Mahatma Gandhi, Pandit Nehru, Sachin Tendulkar, Amitabh B. Raj Kapoor and many others.
Nobody inherited Talent or whatever that word means, each of them was Born into an age where the world was waiting for individuals to take up the challenge, armed with out of the box thinking and hours and hours of hard work and grit behind their back to meet the challenge head on.
I have seen both natural and artificial mushrooms throw dense white fumes, toxic waste in to the atmosphere. The natural ones i never tried to gulp down but the amazing artificial mushrooms are the ones I cherish to chew up in my head.
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