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Practice isn't the thing you do once you're good. It's the thing you do that makes you good.

Malcolm Gladwell

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Malcolm Gladwell
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: September 3
Journalist
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Sociologist
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Malcolm Timothy Gladwell
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Outliers
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