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The Outliers● Factors that affect

achievement

● Date of birth

● Location of birth

● Parents

● Socio-economic situation of your era

● Culture

● Preparation – 10000 hours of practice

10000 Hours● Magic number for true

expertise

● Magic number for greatness

● Rare cases for accomplishing it in less time

● It's the thing you do that makes you good

● Tremendous amount of time

● You can't do it alone

● Opportunities

● Under your control

Bill Joy● Wrote a better UNIX code

● Wrote software that allows you to access the internet

● Cofounded Sun Microsystems, which developed Java

● Comparable to Bill Gates in Silicon Valley

Bill Joy's Story● Math wiz

● University of Michigan opened Computer Center in 1971

● Time sharing terminal

● Spent 8-10 hours of programming throughout college

● System bug that allowed him to sit on the terminal forever

● In graduate school, he was doing it more

● Became proficient in his second year in graduate school

The Beatles● Started the British invasion to

US in 1964

● Very popular during 60s and 70s

● Changed the face of popular music

● Released consecutive hit albums

● Legendary band

The Beatles' Story● Lennon and McCartney got

together in 1957

● Reached their greatest artistic achievement in 10 years

● Hamburg, Germany 1960

● Nonstop striptease, nonstop rock and roll

● Lots of alcohol, lots of women

● Played for 8 hours, 7 nights a week

● By 1964, performed live 1200 times

Bill Gates● College dropout

● Founded Microsoft

● Made the Windows operating system

● Used to be the richest man on earth

Bill Gates' Story● Math wiz

● 8th grade in Lakeside, started a computer club in 1968

● Taught themselves programming

● Parents would raise money to buy computing time

● C-Cubed, test their software in exchange of computing time

● University of Washington

● 1971, Information Science Inc.

● 1500 hours of programming

Bill Gates' Story● TRW called ISI for help with their

power station software

● 'Independent Study Project'

● John Norton

● He spent his high school from 8th grade with nonstop programming

● Spent 7 years of programming when he dropped out

● He is way past 10000 hours

What would you like to be?

10000 hour practice > Talent

A. Talent + 10000 hour practiceB. TalentC. 10000 hour practiceD. no talent, no 10000 hour practice

In the games industry...

A regular guy/gal who made games is much better than an

academically smart guy/gal

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