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Three boys are in the schoolyard bragging about their fathers. The first boy says, “My Dad scribbles a few words on a piece of paper, calls it a poem, and they give him $50 for it.” The second boy says, “That’s nothing. My Dad scribbles a few words on a piece of paper, calls it…
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Englishman Damian Aspinall heads a foundation that works to preserve endangered species of wild animals in the jungles of Africa. Five years ago, Aspinall raised a gorilla named Kwibi and returned him to the wild. Later, Aspinall returned to Gabon and, traveling upriver by boar, miraculously relocated his old friend, all 500 pounds of him. …
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In his third book, Outliers: The Story of Success, writer Malcolm Gladwell claims part of the key to success is to practice a specific task for a total of 10,000 hours. The Beatles performed live in Hamburg, Germany, over 1,200 times from 1960 to 1964, amassing more than 10,000 hours of playing time, therefore meeting…
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