Cocktail party conversation

Malcolm Gladwell has written several books that make interesting cocktail party conversation...Blink...The Tipping Point... and The Outliers. They are an easy read and some of his observations will make you think in a new way about how we learn, how we react to new events, how we judge things we look at, and how we excel. Being in the right place at the right time with the right kind of opportunity tips the scale in your favor. It also helps to be brilliant, driven, and obsessed. 10,000 hours of practice...10,000 hours. That's what it takes to become a Mozart, an Einstein or a Bill Gates. Pass me the chocolate...I need a nap.