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He asks the question: what makes high-achievers different? But you could read it as an extended apology for my success.

The writing style, though deemed easy to understand, was criticized for oversimplifying complex social phenomena. Boy, was I wrong. Outliers: The Story of Success is the third non-fiction book written by Malcolm Gladwell and published by Little, Brown and Company on November 18, 2008. [3], Published by Little, Brown and Company on November 18, 2008,[10] Outliers debuted at number one on the bestseller lists for The New York Times in the United States and The Globe and Mail in Canada on November 28, 2008,[11] holding the position on the former for eleven consecutive weeks. [4] All Gladwell's books focus on singularities: singular events in The Tipping Point, singular moments in Blink, and singular people in Outliers. [9] As one of the slave's descendants, this turn of luck led to Gladwell's relatively successful position in life. [2] Convinced that the most unusual stories had the best chance of reaching the front page of a newspaper, he was "quickly weaned off the notion that [he] should be interested in the mundane". This act inadvertently saved the slave and her offspring from a life of brutal servitude. '"[4] Gates met the 10,000-Hour Rule when he gained access to a high school computer in 1968 at the age of 13, and spent 10,000 hours programming on it. ", "Outliers" those wildly successful people, for whom 'normal rules don't apply.'

Are they just lucky, talented? However, after reading Tolkein, I did not venture out into the world in search of hobbits, dwarves and elves to be my new friends, or worry about being attacked by trolls. Wow.

In short, the parts of this book were more interesting then the whole. This is your blueprint for social success. Noting that they typify innate natural abilities that should have helped them both succeed in life, Gladwell argues that Oppenheimer's upbringing made a pivotal difference in his life. Jackson was disappointed in the book's lack of new ideas, noting that it merely expands on the concept that "you have to be born at the right moment; at the right place; to the right family (posh usually helps); and then you have to work really, really hard. In this stunning new book, Malcolm Gladwell takes us on an intellectual journey through the world of "outliers"--the best and the brightest, the most famous and the most successful.

That’s because the annual cutoff date for youth teams is January 1st, meaning kids born in December have to compete with their friends who are almost a year older than they are.

"No one—not rock stars, not professional athletes, not software billionaires, and not even geniuses—ever makes it alone", writes Gladwell.

"[4] In Outliers, he hopes to show that there are a lot more variables involved in an individual's success than society cares to admit,[4] and he wants people to "move away from the notion that everything that happens to a person is up to that person". To debunk the myth of the “self-made man”, which might be the most popular myth of our time, Gladwell first looked at how much your skills really influence where you end up in life. This is not a feeling oriented review like those that seem to be getting esteem here. Finding it ironic that Outliers provided suggestions on how to resolve cultural biases, the Sunday Times review by Kevin Jackson agreed that the book itself suffered from an unbalanced focus on American subjects, predicting that this would lead to better sales in the United States than in the United Kingdom. The book has been awarded with , and many others. In chapter nine, Marita's Bargain, Gladwell advances the notion that the success of students of different cultures or different socio-economic backgrounds is in fact highly correlated to the time students spent in school or in educationally rich environments. [4] Gladwell, however, never mentions that Gates' mother had access to the board of directors of IBM and was not just an ordinary daughter of wealthy businessmen as he says. Outliers: The Story of Success is the third non-fiction book written by Malcolm Gladwell and published by Little, Brown and Company on November 18, 2008. My first exposure to Gladwell. I listened to this one and want to read it now so I can spend more time thinking about the revelations he explores. [6], While writing the book, Gladwell noted that "the biggest misconception about success is that we do it solely on our smarts, ambition, hustle and hard work. I kept thinking, "I've just got to put in more hours if I want to do better.". Tolkein's books, while entertaining, have little connection to reality. I bet he doesn't even see it. He also notes that he himself took exactly 10 years to meet the 10,000-Hour Rule, during his brief tenure at The American Spectator and his more recent job at The Washington Post. Gladwell did a commendable job in bringing this subject of success into a logical paradigm that is both palatable and eye-opening. [3] Gladwell points out that Langan has not reached a high level of success because of the dysfunctional environment in which he grew up. How much raw talent remains uncultivated and ultimately lost because we cling to outmoded ideas of what success looks like and what is required to achieve it? [24], Case Western Reserve University's assistant professor of psychology Brooke N. Macnamara and colleagues have subsequently performed a comprehensive review of 9,331 research papers about practice relating to acquiring skills. In reality, it’s often closer to 10 years. “Practice isn't the thing you do once you're good.

"[9] BusinessWeek gave the book four out of five stars and appreciated its "Aha!" Because once you’ve reached a certain level of legal expertise, other factors start to take over and influence your career, like social skills, how good your network is, and even catching a lucky break. [2] When asked what message he wanted people to take away after reading Outliers, Gladwell responded, "What we do as a community, as a society, for each other, matters as much as what we do for ourselves. [2] His familiarity with academic material has allowed him to write about "psychology experiments, sociological studies, law articles, statistical surveys of plane crashes and classical musicians and hockey players", which he converts into prose accessible to a general audience and which sometimes pass as memes into the popular imagination. [3] The book offers examples that include the musical ensemble the Beatles, Microsoft's co-founder Bill Gates, and the theoretical physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer. THAT'S IT.” out-li-er \-,l•(-9)r\ noun i: something that is situated away from or classed differently from a main or related body 2: a statistical observation that is markedly different in value from the others of the sample. The main characters of this non fiction, psychology story are , . I'm in no position to read journal articles in fields outside my own. 1-Sentence-Summary: Outliers explains why “the self-made man” is a myth and what truly lies behind the success of the best people in their field, which is often a series of lucky events, rare opportunities and other external factors, which are out of our control.