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A gift or hard graft?

Published November 19, 2008, 5:23 am, Guardian Unlimited

We look at outrageously talented and successful people - the Beatles, Mozart, Rockefeller, Bill Gates - and assume there is such a thing as pure genius. Not necessarily, argues Malcolm Gladwell...

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