Gladwell investigates the story of success and undermines key assumptions in the story of the successful "individual".
He talks about society's overarching design to promote talented individuals and the flawed idea that differences in underdeveloped individuals disappear over time. He contends that rather than dissipate, they actually become amplified.
He recognizes certain key factors of success:
- Hard work - manifested as 10,000 hours cumulatively spent on learning a skill set.
- Complexity, autonomy and a relationship between effort and reward in doing creative work as a measure of how meaningful each hour is
- The effect of power distance and language to affect entitlement and the ability to challenge while asking the right questions
- The benefit of persistence, self education and drive in development
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