This is the story extracted out of the book “Outliers” by Malcolm Gladwell. And of course I didn’t chose this book because of the author’s name, but the book chose me. Haha. Let’s dive into the meat of it. It’s a book about chance and skills. Let's forget Bill Joy. He's not as famous the other 2 names in the title : Bill gates and The Beatles. It seems that they're not the BEST in its time. It's because of the opportunity which was presented to them, and by chance and luck, they were already armed with a lot of experience and exposure in their respective fields. Read their background and you'll understand why. On hindsight, everything looks as if it's 'meant to be'.. or they were at the right place at the right time.
But the truth is that, I believe we should look ahead. Just like how the Beatles have clocked more than 10,000 hours playing in (maybe) lupsup bars before they reached 20, and how Bill Gates has been tinkering with Mainframes and computer what nots, we have to clock our 10,000 hours before we can say, let's play with some self-esteem.
Before that, we're just not ready. Practice makes perfect. There's no shortcut.
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