In Malcolm Gladwell’s recent book,
Outliers: The Story of Success
, the author argues that top-level mastery of any discipline cannot be achieved without sustained and concerted effort, usually from an early age, until something like ten thousand hours of focused practice have been logged. Gladwell’s goal is to expose as Romantic delusion the notion that “outliers,” his word for individuals who achieve world-class mastery, are the outcome of geniuses inevitably rising to the top—often
in spite of their environment. In
Outliers, Gladwell marshals a chorus of evidence to make his case.
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