Success Story(Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell)

The historian David Arkush once compared Russian
and Chinese peasant proverbs, and the differences are
striking. "If God does not bring it, the earth will not give
it" is a typical Russian proverb. On the other hand, Arkush writes, Chinese proverbs are striking in their belief that "hard work, shrewd planning and self-reliance or cooperation with a
small group will in time bring recompense."


 Virtually
every success story we've seen in this book so far involves
someone or some group working harder than their peers.
Bill Gates was addicted to his computer as a child. So was
Bill Joy. The Beatles put in thousands of hours of practice
in Hamburg. Joe Flom ground away for years, perfecting
the art of takeovers, before he got his chance. Working
really hard is what successful people do, and the genius
of the culture formed in the rice paddies is that hard work
gave those in the fields a way to find meaning in the midst
of great uncertainty and poverty. That lesson has served
Asians well in many endeavors but rarely so perfectly as
in the case of mathematics.

Culled from Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell

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