The Outliers

Malcolm Galdwell introduces insightful way of reading the everyday fight in a new light. As he notes in this book too, not all successful people became successful just because they are smart. The extraordinary success these outliers achieve is more related to the opportunities they receive then their talents. Rather than the IQ, it is the 10,000 hours of practice that matters more. Rather than your natural talent, it is the natural opportunity and chances that come across you. But there is another secret he didn't reveal. If you really mean something and work 10,000 times hard, nothing is really impossible. Nothing.

- Malcolm Galdwell, The Outliers

The Road Ahead

The problem today is there are just too many path, too many options, too many choices. It used to be easier. Either yes or no. Black or white. Go or stay. But the ultimate lesson remains the same. As Robert Frost said before, I agree, take the path less traveled, and you will discover something in you surprising and delightful.

Take that road. Be brave. But don't forget to enjoy it.

The Road Not Taken
by Robert Frost

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveller, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having pehaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing thee
Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowning how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I--
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.



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He said it. That has made all the difference.