This was when the railroads were built and when Wall Street emerged. 铁路正在兴建,华尔街开始繁荣, It was when industrial manufacturing started in earnest. 制造业正蓬勃发展, It was when all the rules by which the traditional...
Let me give you one final example of the hidden opportunities that outliers benefit from. 让我再给你举个例子,看看机遇是如何在不知不觉中惠顾那些出类拔萃之辈的。 Suppose we do another version of the calendar analysis...
By the time Gates dropped out of Harvard after his sophomore year to try his hand at his own software company, 当读大学二年级的盖茨从哈佛大学退学,决定腾出手来创办自己的软件公司的时候, he'd been programming nonst...
Gates was now in his senior year, 此时,盖茨已经是高年级学生, and somehow he managed to convinced his teachers to let him decamp for Bonneville under the guise of an independent study project. 也不知道用了什么办法,他成功地...
C-cubed eventually went bankrupt, so Gates and his friends began hanging around the computer center at the University of Washington. 但电脑中心公司最终破产,盖茨和他的同伴开始到华盛顿大学的计算机中心转悠。 Before l...
It was a kind of an amazing thing. 想起来真让人难以置信。 It was an amazing thing, of course, because this was 1968. 这是一件令人难以置信的事,确实如此,因为这是在1968年。 Most colleges didn't have computer clubs i...
On their third trip. they played 48 times, for a total of 172 hours on stage. 第三次,他们表演了48场,演出的时间总共达到172个小时: The last two Hamburg gigs, in November and December of 1962, involved another 90 hours of perf...
And the bands will play all the time to catch the passing traffic. 为了吸引过往的人们,乐队的演出不能停下来, In an American red-light district, they will call it nonstop striptease. 就像美国红灯区的脱衣舞表演一样,...
Is the ten-thousand hour rule a general rule of success? 这是成功的常规定律? If we scratch below the surface of every great achiever, do we always find the equivalent of the Michigan Computer Center, 如果你能深入剖折各项伟大的成...
In an average week in those years, I was spending more time in the Computer Center than in my classes. 那时候,我每周待在计算机中心的时间,远远超过我待在教室里面的时间。 All of us down their had this recurring nightma...