New millionaire and recent WSOP top dog Peter Eastgate is a man who can afford to screen calls right now. Word on the (fibre-optic) grapevine is that there is a three month wait just for the right to text the guy that scours the champ’s laptop for fingernail shrapnel. As there should be: when a guy bites off a $9.1 million sized chunk of change from the poker circuit, he has the right to take some time to digest it. Unfortunately, that might be frustrating for Malcolm Gladwell, author of The Tipping Point and man most likely to leave the restaurant before the cheese n’ biscuits. His latest book is called Outliers and Eastgate could easily feature in a revised edition.
Gladwell argues that ‘the true origins of high achievement’ lie in areas such as ‘demographic luck’ and ‘the particular opportunities that our particular place in history presents us with’. Another key point of the book (‘The Story of Success’) is that anyone who wants to be successful needs to put the hours in – specifically, about 10,000.
Although it does not explain how to repackage the Protestant work ethic into a 256 page best seller, it is worth considering how his investigations are supported by Eastgate’s life-changing night in Vegas.
In Monday’s post, I will endeavour to illustrate how Icegate’s record-breaking triumph is a classic example of time and circumstance.
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