The IKUNA Blog — Outliers

Follow Your Own Path

 

In my last post titled 'Education is King' I spoke about education and its importance to leading and fulfilling a successful life. Most of us will get our high school diplomas or its equivalent.That is the beginning. But what happens after that? Some go on to college, many don't. Does advanced education help our chances of succeeding? Of course. Is it required? That's debatable. 

Malcolm Gladwell in his book Outliers says that 10,000 hours is the magic number to become an expert in a particular field. He didn't say a college degree would. 10,000...