{"id":1156,"date":"2008-12-07T05:42:43","date_gmt":"2008-12-07T10:42:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/wp\/?p=1156"},"modified":"2008-12-07T05:42:43","modified_gmt":"2008-12-07T10:42:43","slug":"10000-hours-luck-and-genuis-ascending","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/?p=1156","title":{"rendered":"10,000 Hours, Luck and Genuis Ascending"},"content":{"rendered":"

Malcolm Gladwell’s new book Outliers<\/a> includes a chapter on how many hours it takes to develop a skill (10,000 or 10 years) and how luck plays a part in allowing talented people to succeed.<\/p>


\nI have a friend who had some bad luck as a kid – she lost her mother at age 3, her stepmother was a living bitch, and unrelated to either of those disasters, her father suffered severe financial reversals – but who’s been the recipient of some very good luck since. She is attractive (one of the few women I know who actually looks good in long hair) and has a gorgeous wardrobe, a beautiful home, a gentleman friend who can build or repair anything who is hopelessly in love with her, dozens of friends, a loving family and a sister whose unbelievable generosity is something out of legend.
\nSeveral years ago, a piece of concrete the size of a 500-page book hit her on the head when she was driving on a highway that was under construction. If that had happened to you or me, we’d be dead. Fortunately, my friend not only survived, she got a settlement large enough to allow her to put in an in-ground pool.
\nLast night, my friend came over to tell me that her son and daughter-in-law received an unexpected gift of $12,000 from a stranger, a philanthropist in New York.
\nI’m happy for them, of course, they are as the clich<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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