https://padlet.com/mcarol1/vxlrde8csahy Independent Reading Project Padlet en-us 2018-05-22 12:00:21 UTC 2023-02-28 21:28:42 UTC hello@padlet.com mcarol1 https://padlet.com/mcarol1/vxlrde8csahy/wish/262652680 2018-05-22 12:12:41 UTC https://padlet.com/mcarol1/vxlrde8csahy/wish/262652680 mcarol1 https://padlet.com/mcarol1/vxlrde8csahy/wish/262653427 In Outliers: The Story of Success, Malcolm Gladwell sets out to explain the various factors that lead to mastery and renown. The book itself is structured as a series of case studies that span different cultures and different time periods, but that all relate to a few central theses and theories. For Gladwell, success is not simply the product of a powerful personality or a high IQ. Instead, successful individuals often thrive thanks to the right combination of hard work, community support, and meaningful opportunity.]]> 2018-05-22 12:15:14 UTC https://padlet.com/mcarol1/vxlrde8csahy/wish/262653427 mcarol1 https://padlet.com/mcarol1/vxlrde8csahy/wish/262655474 2018-05-22 12:21:48 UTC https://padlet.com/mcarol1/vxlrde8csahy/wish/262655474 mcarol1 https://padlet.com/mcarol1/vxlrde8csahy/wish/263609115 "The idea that excellence at performing a complex task requires a certain minimum level of practice surfaces again and again in studies of expertise. In fact, researchers have settled on what they believe is the magic number for true expertise: ten thousand hours."]]> 2018-05-25 11:44:42 UTC https://padlet.com/mcarol1/vxlrde8csahy/wish/263609115 mcarol1 https://padlet.com/mcarol1/vxlrde8csahy/wish/263609337 In transplanting the paesani culture of southern Italy to the hills of eastern Pennsylvania, the Rosetans had created a powerful, protective social structure capable of insulating them from the pressures of the modern world. The Rose tans were healthy because off where they were from, because of the world they had created for themselves in their little town in the hills.]]> 2018-05-25 11:45:59 UTC https://padlet.com/mcarol1/vxlrde8csahy/wish/263609337 mcarol1 https://padlet.com/mcarol1/vxlrde8csahy/wish/263609605 "It is not easy to be honest about where we're from. It would be simpler for my mother to portray her success as a straightforward triumph over victimhood, just as it would be simpler to look at Joe Flom and call him the greatest lawyer ever--even though his individual achievements are so impossibly intertwined with his ethnicity, his generation, the particulars of the garment industry, and the peculiar biases of downtown law firms."]]> 2018-05-25 11:47:17 UTC https://padlet.com/mcarol1/vxlrde8csahy/wish/263609605 mcarol1 https://padlet.com/mcarol1/vxlrde8csahy/wish/263610129 2018-05-25 11:49:52 UTC https://padlet.com/mcarol1/vxlrde8csahy/wish/263610129 mcarol1 https://padlet.com/mcarol1/vxlrde8csahy/wish/263610512 2018-05-25 11:51:47 UTC https://padlet.com/mcarol1/vxlrde8csahy/wish/263610512 mcarol1 https://padlet.com/mcarol1/vxlrde8csahy/wish/263610841 2018-05-25 11:53:40 UTC https://padlet.com/mcarol1/vxlrde8csahy/wish/263610841