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I have a book coming up. Didn’t quit my job to write it; just woke up an hour earlier every day to write it and posted it on my blog. Penguin eventually contacted me. All I did was put the hours in.
- Hugh MacLeod

Set the agenda by showing up first.
1. Rise early every morning.
2. Work hard all day long.
3. Strike oil.
- J. Paul Getty, Oil Baron

Get up early than the other guy.
- Tom Peters

No one who can rise before dawn 360 days a year can fail to make his family rich.
- Chinese Proverb

THE EFFORT EFFECT
People have two kinds of mindsets: growth or fixed. People with the growth mindset view life as a series of challenges and opportunities for improving. People with a fixed mindset believe that they are “set” as either good or bad. The issue is that the good ones believe they don’t have to work hard, and the bad ones believe that working hard won’t change anything.
- Carol Dweck, Mindset: The New Psychology of Success

THE 10,000 HOUR RULE
It shows why Bill Gates and the Beatles succeeded for essentially the same reason... musical geniuses such as Mozart, and chess grandmasters, both achieved their status after about 10 years. 10 years is roughly how long it takes to put in 10,000 hours of hard practice. 10,000 hours is the magic number of greatness.

Because both were absorbed and drawn into programming, spending countless hours in fascinated self-study, both achieved 10,000 hours of programming experience before hitting their level. Because hitting that level took place at exactly the time need for that level of computer expertise manifested in society, ability came together with need and unique uber programmers were born.

The Beatles played seven days a week on extended stints in Hamburg Germany and estimated by the time they started their phenomenal climb to greatness in England that they had played for 10,000 hours. Subsequent studies of musicians in general in music school showed that elite, mid-level, and low-level musicians hewed very closely to the "genius is a function of hours put in and not personal gifts" school of thought: members of each group had similar amounts of total lifetime practice.

Genius is a function of time and not giftedness…
- From Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell

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