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Jun 2021
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Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell Summary

Jeremy Silva
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My Favorite Quotes from Outliers

Practice isn’t the thing you do once you are good, practice is the thing that makes you good.

People at the top do not just work much harder than everyone else, they work much much harder.

What started out as adversity ended up being an opportunity.

It is not how much money we make that makes us happy, it is whether our work fulfills us.

The kinds of errors that cause plane crashes are invariably errors of teamwork and communication.

This episode is also available as a blog post: at https://jsilva.blog/2020/10/26/outliers-summary/

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