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how these things happen.
02:31
This is a result from that. What you see here is a network of
galleries in museums that connect to each other. And through
this map that we mapped out last year, we are able to predict
very accurately the success of an artist if you give me the first
five exhibits that he or she had in their career.
02:52
Well, as we thought about success, we realized that success is
not only about networks; there are so many other dimensions
to that. And one of the things we need for success,
obviously, is performance. So let's define what's the difference
between performance and success. Well, performance is what
you do: how fast you run, what kind of paintings you
paint, what kind of papers you publish. However, in our
working definition, success is about what the community
notices from what you did, from your performance: How does
it acknowledge it, and how does it reward you for it? In other
terms, your performance is about you, but your success is
about all of us. And this was a very important shift for
us, because the moment we defined success as being a
collective measure that the community provides to us, it
became measurable, because if it's in the community, there
are multiple data points about that. So we go to school, we
exercise, we practice, because we believe that performance
leads to success. But the way we actually started to
explore, we realized that performance and success are very,
very different animals when it comes to the mathematics of the
problem. And let me illustrate that.
04:11
So what you see here is the fastest man on earth, Usain
Bolt. And of course, he wins most of the competitions that he
enters. And we know he's the fastest on earth because we
have a chronometer to measure his speed. Well, what is
interesting about him is that when he wins, he doesn't do so
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