Work behind the dream

You've got to have a dream, but a dream alone won't get you there. There is always a price to be paid. I love chapter two in Malcolm Gladwell's book, Outliers, The Story of Success. It's called, "The 10,000 hour rule." Malcolm gets at the principle that achievement is talent plus preparation. He uses examples from Mozart to the Beatles to Bill Gates. Gladwell writes, "And what's more, the people at the very top don't just work harder or even much harder than everyone else. They work much, much harder." He gives great stories and illustrations of the elite performers (not just musicians) who had at least 10,000 hours of hard practice under their belts before they found success. Dreams are great, in fact, a must, but without drive they amount to little or nothing.



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