Personal qualities Quote by Malcolm Gladwell

““there is something profoundly wrong with the way we make sense of success. What is the question we always ask about the successful? We want to know what they’re like—what kind of personalities they have, or how intelligent they are, or what kind of lifestyles they have, or what special talents they might have been born with. And we assume that it is those personal qualities that explain how that individual reached the top.””

Malcolm Gladwell

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