Why are some people successful while others aren't? What's the s1. of success? Author Malcolm Gladwell thinks he knows.

Many of Gladwell's ideas a2. in his book Outliers. The popular view is that some of us are born talented and others aren't. But Gladwell thinks that this is just an e3. for not trying. And if you want to be good at something, you have to w4. at it. "Practice isn't the thing you do once you're good."

The central idea of the book is the "10,000-hour rule". It means that if you want to be a5. the best in the world, you need to practise something for 10,000 hours. Do you know Bill Gates, the founder of the Microsoft Company? He was given access to a high school at 13, which allowed him to practice computer programming for m6. than 10,000 hours.

The interesting thing is that success has n7. to do with intelligence (智力). Christopher Langan, who's got an IQ of between 195 and 210 (Albert Einstein's IQ was about between 160 and 180). As a boy at school, Langan was a8. to take an exam in a foreign language that he had never studied. And he even passed it after just skimming a text book in a very short time. H9. , Langan never graduated from any university and lived a hard life. This p10. that intelligence alone is not the key to success.

So, are you ready? Then go for it! You could get success.

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