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This document discusses the concept of talent and success. It summarizes the key ideas from two books: Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell and Talent is Overrated by Geoff Colvin. The document argues that notions of talent are distorted, and that both personal qualities like passion and effort as well as social and environmental factors contribute to success. Things like practice, hidden advantages, extraordinary opportunities, and cultural legacies all play a role. Success is based on an individual's qualities within their social context and nobody achieves success alone.
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- 2. Geoff McDonald @BookRapper BookRapper.com
- 4. The Book Outliers : The Story of Success
- 6. The Book Talent is Overrated
- 8. Talent ≠ Success The BIG Idea
- 9. Personal Social Speed RAP
- 10. Top Performer Your Challenge : Are you up for it?
- 11. No shortcut Book Rapper Says...
- 13. Personal Social Our notions of talent are distorted
- 14. Personal Social Talent Passion Effort Personal qualities matter
- 15. Personal Social Talent Hidden Advantages Passion Effort Extraordinary Opportunities Cultural Legacies Social context matters too!
- 17. The Beatles Had played an estimated 1200 shows by 1964
- 18. Stars, Good, Unlikely How much practice have you done?
- 20. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Separating fantasy from fact
- 21. Tiger Woods Acknowledges his success is due to practice
- 23. Ice Hockey Success How to become a NHL player
- 24. Asians and Maths Are Asians naturally better at maths?
- 26. 1831-1840 1953-1956 Being an Entrepreneur What’s important about these dates?
- 27. Bill Gates Why Bill dropped out of Harvard
- 29. Herdsman Who are you from?
- 30. Farmer Who are you from?
- 31. Rice Grower Who are you from?
- 33. Deliberate Practice Six Qualities of Specific Training and Skill Development
- 35. Benjamin Franklin How to Become a Great Writer
- 36. Case Study Method How to Develop Your Business Acumen
- 37. Different. What do you practice? How do you practice?
- 39. You and Others Your success is based on your qualities and your social context
- 41. Buy Colvin’s Books! Also... Book Rapper Issue : Glopportunity
- 42. Nobody does it alone Success does not occur in a vacuum
- 43. A Presentation Recording available for members at : BookRapper.com