Gladwell quotes Lennon to show how hard the Beatles worked to achieve what they did. In Hamburg, we had to play for eight hours, so really had to find a new way of playing.” “In Liverpool, we’d only done one-hour sessions, and we just used to do our best numbers, the same ones, at every one. We had to try even harder, put our heart and soul into it, to get ourselves over. “We couldn’t help it with all the experience playing all night long. “We got better and got more confidence,” said Lennon. That’s a quote from John Lennon, talking about the Beatles’ early days, performing at a Hamburg strip club called the Indra. I have been reading David and Goliath, but my favourite is Outliers because of the chapter headed The 10,000-Hour, which begins with the epigraph, “In Hamburg, we had to play for eight hours.” Today is the birthday of Malcolm Gladwell.
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