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  2. Outliers (book) - Wikipedia

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    Outliers: The Story of Success is a non-fiction book written by Malcolm Gladwell and published by Little, Brown and Company on November 18, 2008. In Outliers, Gladwell examines the factors that contribute to high levels of success. To support his thesis, he examines why the majority of Canadian ice hockey players are born in the first few ...

  3. Survivorship bias - Wikipedia

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    Finance and economics. In finance, survivorship bias is the tendency for failed companies to be excluded from performance studies because they no longer exist. It often causes the results of studies to skew higher because only companies that were successful enough to survive until the end of the period are included.

  4. Success - Wikipedia

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    Success is the state or condition of meeting a defined range of expectations. It may be viewed as the opposite of failure. The criteria for success depend on context, and may be relative to a particular observer or belief system. One person might consider a success what another person considers a failure, particularly in cases of direct ...

  5. The Seven Basic Plots - Wikipedia

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    809/.924. LC Class. PN3378 .B65 2004. Preceded by. The Great Deception. Followed by. Scared to Death: From BSE to Global Warming. The Seven Basic Plots: Why We Tell Stories is a 2004 book by Christopher Booker containing a Jung -influenced analysis of stories and their psychological meaning. Booker worked on the book for 34 years.

  6. Nothing Serious (short story collection) - Wikipedia

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    A longer version of this story, titled "Joy Bells for Walter", was published in A Few Quick Ones (1959). Plot. The Oldest Member discusses golfers with low handicaps who nonetheless lack the proper golfing spirit, and mentions a fine example of a devoted golfer with a high handicap, Horace Bewstridge. He proceeds to tell the man's story.

  7. Cuban success story - Wikipedia

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    Cuban businesses in the Little Havana neighborhood of Miami (1978), home of the mythologized successful Cuban American business sector.. The Cuban success story, sometimes referred to as the myth of the golden exile, is the idea that Cuban exiles that came to the United States after the 1959 Cuban Revolution were mostly or exclusively political exiles who were white, largely conservative, and ...

  8. Social Stories - Wikipedia

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    Social Stories were devised as a tool to help autistic individuals better understand the nuances of interpersonal communication so that they could "interact in an effective and appropriate manner". [1] Although the prescribed format was meant for high functioning people with basic communication skills, the format was adapted substantially to ...

  9. List of narrative forms - Wikipedia

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    Epistolary - a story usually in a letter written form with a section of dialogue. Narrative forms include: Autobiography – a detailed description or account of the storyteller's own life. Biography – a detailed description or account of someone's life. Captivity narrative – a story in which the protagonist is captured and describes their ...