Malcolm Gladwell - Practice Quotes

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Practice isn't the thing you do once you're good. It's the thing you do that makes you good.

Malcolm Gladwell

To become a chess grandmaster also seems to take about ten years. (Only the legendary Bobby Fisher got to that elite level in less than that amount of time: it took him nine years.) 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

Success has to do with deliberate practice. Practice must be focused, determined, and in an environment where there's feedback.

Malcolm Gladwell

It is those who are successful, in other words, who are most likely to be given the kinds of special opportunities that lead to further success. It's the rich who get the biggest tax breaks. It's the best students who get the best teaching and most attention. And it's the biggest nine- and ten-year-olds who get the most coaching and practice. Success is the result of what sociologists like to call accumulative advantage.

Malcolm Gladwell