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Perseverance, Passion, Motivation and Opportunity – Mao’s Last Dancer

Perseverance I have just read Li Cunxin’s biography “Mao’s Last Dancer”. Li Cunxin was a peasant from Qingdao, China who was picked out of a classroom at the age of 11. He left home to begin a seven-year long harsh training regime, that saw Li get up at 5.30 am and train until 9 pm, 6 [...]

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10,000 Hours – Lessons from Malcolm Gladwell's "Outliers"

As I posted last week I read a very interesting book that is by now a very important book in the Web 2.0 community. This book is called ”Outliers: The story of Success“ written by Malcolm Gladwell. One of the themes in this book is that the most successful people in terms of business and careers are the people that [...]

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