Talent, preparation and opportunity were 3 main factor which lead people to success.
Here is a example about Bill Joy,from Outliers. He was one of the most famous computer scientists in the world.
Bill Joy was a Math genius. "He had been voted "Most Studious Student" by his graduating class at North Farmington High School, outside Detroit, which, as he put it, meant that he was "no-date nerd." And on that time, he was attracted by the new computer center in the University of Michigan, which was the one of the first universities in the world to switch over to time-sharing. Bill Joy used to use cardboard punch cards for making program. It took many hours to writing and checking codes for providing a new program. It was extraordinarily but it taught Bill patience and proofreading. By the way, time-sharing made programming more efficiently and easy for Bill to creating new products.
Therefore, the computer center became his entire life. He got a job to work with professors of computer science over a summer. In his postgraduate life, he rewrote Unix and Java. People called home the Edison of the Internet.
Through Bill Joy's talent, opportunities he caught and many times of program test he did , he finally achieved success in the field of computer science.
In addition, according to Malcolm Gladwell's opinion, preparation play the biggest the role of leading to success. There is a rule called 10,000-Hour Rule. It means people who practice 10,000 hours on something, you will be successful, even your innate talent was not remarkable. And if you have opportunities and talent but you didn't practice 10,000 hours, you still cannot be success.
Here is a example about Bill Joy,from Outliers. He was one of the most famous computer scientists in the world.
Bill Joy was a Math genius. "He had been voted "Most Studious Student" by his graduating class at North Farmington High School, outside Detroit, which, as he put it, meant that he was "no-date nerd." And on that time, he was attracted by the new computer center in the University of Michigan, which was the one of the first universities in the world to switch over to time-sharing. Bill Joy used to use cardboard punch cards for making program. It took many hours to writing and checking codes for providing a new program. It was extraordinarily but it taught Bill patience and proofreading. By the way, time-sharing made programming more efficiently and easy for Bill to creating new products.
Therefore, the computer center became his entire life. He got a job to work with professors of computer science over a summer. In his postgraduate life, he rewrote Unix and Java. People called home the Edison of the Internet.
Through Bill Joy's talent, opportunities he caught and many times of program test he did , he finally achieved success in the field of computer science.
In addition, according to Malcolm Gladwell's opinion, preparation play the biggest the role of leading to success. There is a rule called 10,000-Hour Rule. It means people who practice 10,000 hours on something, you will be successful, even your innate talent was not remarkable. And if you have opportunities and talent but you didn't practice 10,000 hours, you still cannot be success.