Why are some people successful while others aren't? What's the s of success? Author Malcolm Gladwell thinks he knows.
Many of Gladwell's ideas a in his book Outliers. The popular view is that some of us are born talented and others aren't. But Gladwell thinks that this is just an e for not trying. And if you want to be good at something, you have to w at it. "Practice isn't the thing you do once you're good."
The central idea of the book is the "10,000-hour rule". It means that if you want to be a the best in the world, you need to practise something for 10,000 hours. Do you know Bill Gates, the founder of the Microsoft Company? He was given access to a high school at 13, which allowed him to practice computer programming for m than 10,000 hours.
The interesting thing is that success has n to do with intelligence (智力). Christopher Langan, who's got an IQ of between 195 and 210 (Albert Einstein's IQ was about between 160 and 180). As a boy at school, Langan was a to take an exam in a foreign language that he had never studied. And he even passed it after just skimming a text book in a very short time. H, Langan never graduated from any university and lived a hard life. This p that intelligence alone is not the key to success.
So, are you ready? Then go for it! You could get success.
