{"id":6811,"date":"2009-02-03T20:45:22","date_gmt":"2009-02-04T03:45:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=6811"},"modified":"2009-02-03T20:45:22","modified_gmt":"2009-02-04T03:45:22","slug":"are-you-an-innie-or-an-outie-the-answer-may-be-an-ancient-chinese-secret","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/6811\/are-you-an-innie-or-an-outie-the-answer-may-be-an-ancient-chinese-secret\/","title":{"rendered":"Are You an Innie or an Outie? The Answer May Be an Ancient Chinese Secret"},"content":{"rendered":"

I just finished Malcolm Gladwell’s book, Outliers, The Story of Success<\/em>.\u00a0 I found it a facinating read.\u00a0 If you have not yet read his book, or any of his others, I strongly suggest it.\u00a0 The premise of Outliers <\/em>discusses the contributing factors, opportunities and cultural legacies that help shape the outcomes of individuals whom we recognized as highly successful.<\/p>\n

One of the most enlightening discussions in the book provides perhaps a new perspective as to why people of Asian decent traditionally outperform people of Western cultures in math.\u00a0 We often believe that academic achievement is attributed to IQ and intellect, yet Gladwell’s explanation is more basic.\u00a0 It may very well relate to how Asians count and the character length of the actual numeric characters allowing them to retain more information in a smaller period of time.\u00a0 Again, I found the author’s insight facinating.<\/p>\n

Success is not solely a factor of intellect.\u00a0 At a certain point, cultural influences\/rules and situational circumstances contribute more to why an individual or individuals are successful.\u00a0 Even more at the core of real success are the long hours of dedicated hard work.<\/p>\n

I began thinking about how this all relates to the nature of real estate, both as a professional as well as the profession itself.<\/p>\n

No doubt, we are currently experiencing a significant confluence of events both culturally and economically.\u00a0 The theory that real estate was a fairly sure bet, rarely if ever losing value has been more than proven wrong.\u00a0 Business models which leverage technology are not offering transformational change in how value is created in the real estate transaction.<\/p>\n

Why did Rockerfeller become wealthy?\u00a0 Gladwell surmizes that he became wealthy due primarily to his time of birth, coupled with America’s dynamic economic transformation.\u00a0 Along with his hard work, his fate collided with enormous opportunity.\u00a0 It seems Bill Gates too collided with good timing – he came of age during the era of the birth of the personal computer.<\/p>\n

It takes more than just smarts to make it to the top.<\/p>\n

I sense we are again at a cross roads of transformational change, both culturally and economically today with even farther reaching Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I just finished Malcolm Gladwell’s book, Outliers, The Story of Success.\u00a0 I found it a facinating read.\u00a0 If you have not yet read his book, or any of his others, I strongly suggest it.\u00a0 The premise of Outliers discusses the contributing factors, opportunities and cultural legacies that help shape the outcomes of individuals whom we […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":47,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5,19],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-6811","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-disintermediation","7":"category-real-estate","8":"category-technology","10":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":10803,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/10803\/the-physics-of-economics-will-not-be-mocked-just-ask-youtube\/","url_meta":{"origin":6811,"position":0},"title":"The Physics of Economics Will Not Be Mocked – Just Ask YouTube","author":"Jeff Brown","date":"January 13, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"Don't know about you, but I'm sick to death of all the propaganda about Free being the future of ideas. 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