Paul Ollinger

The Thing Malcolm Gladwell Forgot to Mention

Why 10,000 hours doesn’t guarantee the success of your dream

Paul Ollinger
Forge
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4 min readMar 3, 2021

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Illustration: Dora Godfrey / Medium

In‌ ‌his‌ ‌2008‌ ‌bestselling book ‌Outliers‌,‌ ‌Malcolm‌ ‌Gladwell‌ ‌delivered‌ ‌to‌ ‌the‌ mainstream‌ ‌the‌ ‌theory‌ ‌that‌ ‌gaining‌ ‌mastery‌ ‌of‌ ‌any‌ ‌craft‌ ‌requires‌ ‌10,000‌ ‌hours‌ ‌of‌ ‌dedicated‌ ‌practice — as he calls it…

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Paul Ollinger
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Comedian. Host of the Crazy Money podcast. Proud former Facebook and Yahoo! sales person/leader. http://PaulOllinger.com/podcast