Malcolm Gladwell has a new book out that investigates the lives of geniuses in a number of fields. It was interesting to read about the work/practice behind talent.

“This idea - that excellence at a complex task requires a critical, minimum level of practice - surfaces again and again in studies of expertise. In fact, researchers have settled on what they believe is a magic number for true expertise: 10,000 hours.”

You can read an excerpt of the book, Outliers: The Story Of Success - http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2008/nov/15/malcolm-gladwell-outliers-extract

Do you have a favorite Ted talk? We’ll do this again next month … which Ted talk should we pick

Here’s Jill Bolte Taylor’s Ted talk - My Stroke of Insight - that we saw today. What did you think of the talk? How can we do the Ted talks better?