The
sense of possibility so necessary for success comes not
just from inside us or from our parents. It comes from our
time: from the particular opportunities that our particular place in history presents us with. For a young would be lawyer, being born in the early 1930s was a magic time,
just as being born in 1955 was for a software programmer,
or being born in 1835 was for an entrepreneur.
There is no doubt that those Jewish immigrants
arrived at the perfect time, with the perfect skills," says
the sociologist Stephen Steinberg. "To exploit that opportunity, you had to have certain virtues, and those immigrants worked hard. They sacrificed. They scrimped and
saved and invested wisely. But still, you have to remember that the garment industry in those years was growing
by leaps and bounds. The economy was desperate for the
skills that they possessed."
Culled from Outliers By Malcolm Gladwell
Abdulkareem,Taoheedah kehinde
sense of possibility so necessary for success comes not
just from inside us or from our parents. It comes from our
time: from the particular opportunities that our particular place in history presents us with. For a young would be lawyer, being born in the early 1930s was a magic time,
just as being born in 1955 was for a software programmer,
or being born in 1835 was for an entrepreneur.
There is no doubt that those Jewish immigrants
arrived at the perfect time, with the perfect skills," says
the sociologist Stephen Steinberg. "To exploit that opportunity, you had to have certain virtues, and those immigrants worked hard. They sacrificed. They scrimped and
saved and invested wisely. But still, you have to remember that the garment industry in those years was growing
by leaps and bounds. The economy was desperate for the
skills that they possessed."
Culled from Outliers By Malcolm Gladwell
Abdulkareem,Taoheedah kehinde
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