The Most Important Trait for Becoming Successful is also the Hardest to Acquire

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Psychologists like Malcom Gladwell have studied the most successful people in hopes of demystifying what it takes to reach the top. They have even tried to measure how long it takes to reach success, but we know that 10,000 hours of practice to achieve expert level at some skill — as Gladwell wrote about in his book Outliers — doesn’t exactly tell the…