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“He didn’t triumph over adversity. Instead, what started out as adversity ended up being an opportunity.”

Malcolm Gladwell

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“All the outliers we’ve looked at so far were the beneficiaries of some kind of unusual opportunity. Lucky breaks don’t seem like the exception with software billionaires and rock bands and star athletes. They seem like the rule.”

Malcolm Gladwell

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“He had talent by the truckload. But that’s not the only consideration. It never is.”

Malcolm Gladwell

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“Even Mozart—the greatest musical prodigy of all time— couldn’t hit his stride until he had his ten thousand hours in. Practice isn’t the thing you do once you’re good. It’s the thing you do that makes you good.”

Malcolm Gladwell

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“And what’s ten years? Well, it’s roughly how long it takes to put in ten thousand hours of hard practice. Ten thousand hours is the magic number of greatness.”

Malcolm Gladwell

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“Figure out for yourself what you want to be really good at, know that you’ll never really satisfy yourself that you’ve made it, and accept that that’s okay.”

Robert B. Reich

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“One cannot lead a life that is truly excellent without feeling that one belongs to something greater and more permanent than oneself.”

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

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“Autonomous people working toward mastery perform at very high levels. But those who do so in service of some greater objective can achieve even more. The most deeply motivated people—not to mention those who are most productive and satisfied—hitch their desires to a cause larger than themselves.”

Dan Pink

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“‘Being a professional,’ Julius Erving once said, ‘is doing the things you love to do, on the days you don’t feel like doing them.’”

Dan Pink

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“As an entrepreneur, I’m blessed with 100% autonomy over task, time, technique, and team. Here’s the thing: If I maintain that autonomy, I fail. I fail to ship. I fail to excel. I fail to focus. I inevitably end up either with no product or a product the market rejects. The art of the art is picking your limits. That’s the autonomy I most cherish. The freedom to pick my boundaries.”

Seth Godin

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“Nothing is more important to my success than controlling my schedule. I’m most creative from five to nine A.M. If I had a boss or co-workers, they would ruin my best hours one way or another.”

Scott Adams

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“Perhaps it’s time to toss the very word ‘management’ onto the linguistic ash heap alongside ‘icebox’ and ‘horseless carriage.’ This era doesn’t call for better management. It calls for a renaissance of self-direction.”

Dan Pink

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“The desire to do something because you find it deeply satisfying and personally challenging inspires the highest levels of creativity, whether it’s in the arts, sciences, or business.”

Teresa Amabile

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“In our offices and our classrooms we have way too much compliance and way too little engagement. The former might get you through the day, but only the latter will get you through the night.”

Dan Pink

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“And this, more than anything else, is the lesson that people should take away from all these stories and all this research: There is no reason not to follow your dream. Deliberate practice can open the door to a world of possibilities that you may have been convinced were out of reach. Open that door.”

Anders Ericsson

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“Every world-class athlete, every prima ballerina, every concert violinist, every chess grandmaster is living proof it can be done—that people can practice hard day after day, week after week, for years on end. These people have all figured out how to get past the New Year’s resolution effect and make deliberate practice an ongoing part of their lives.”

Anders Ericsson

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“Much of deliberate practice involves developing ever more efficient mental representations that you can use in whatever activity you are practicing.”

Anders Ericsson

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“These studies... tell us that the brain’s structure and function are not fixed. They change in response to use. It is possible to shape the brain—your brain, my brain, anybody’s brain—in the ways that we desire through conscious, deliberate training.”

Anders Ericsson

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“So that’s the problem in a nutshell: purposeful practice is hard work. It’s hard to keep going.”

Anders Ericsson

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“Remember: if your mind is wandering or you’re relaxed and just having fun, you probably won’t improve.”

Anders Ericsson

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