Outliers: Blink and Exceptional Accomplishments
David Berg
8/14/13
Outliers
Outliers, is a book by Malcolm Gladwell, which is known as the book of success. This book explains why some people succeed more than others and it even suggest that birth dates are a factor of success giving an example of Bill Gates and his success in Microsoft. If your are interested in why Asians are superior in math, or why the worlds smartest man has accomplished the least, this book has all the answers. The title says it all outliers means those persons of exceptional accomplishments.
A summary of Chapter 1 is a review of similar towns in Italy with much unlike life expectations and no obvious reason. Though the towns were only miles apart, the life expectancy in Roseto was surprisingly longer, than any neighboring town in the region, which makes Roseto an outlier, which is having exceptional accomplishments. The next chapter speaks about why the better athletes on Canadian teams where all born around the same few months. In a system in which achievement is based on individual worth, we would all assume the hardest work would convert to the best achievement. The fact this condition was just conquered by timing of birth and studies show that hidden advantage, namely being older and stronger than persons born later in the year of fitness brought permanent advantage, which produced Canada's most elite players.
If everyone born in 1981, as an example was qualified to begin play only in a single year, then naturally the older boys, being larger and more coordinated, would control. This seems unreal but this book states a connection between the success of the Beatles and bill gates.
Beatles succeeded for essentially the same reason.
Gladwell notes noting that musical geniuses like Mozart, achieved his status after about 10 years. 10 years is roughly how long it takes to put in 10,000 hours of hard practice. 10,000 hours is the magic number of greatness. Bill Joy at the University of Michigan as well as Bill Gates at Seattle's
8/14/13
Outliers
Outliers, is a book by Malcolm Gladwell, which is known as the book of success. This book explains why some people succeed more than others and it even suggest that birth dates are a factor of success giving an example of Bill Gates and his success in Microsoft. If your are interested in why Asians are superior in math, or why the worlds smartest man has accomplished the least, this book has all the answers. The title says it all outliers means those persons of exceptional accomplishments.
A summary of Chapter 1 is a review of similar towns in Italy with much unlike life expectations and no obvious reason. Though the towns were only miles apart, the life expectancy in Roseto was surprisingly longer, than any neighboring town in the region, which makes Roseto an outlier, which is having exceptional accomplishments. The next chapter speaks about why the better athletes on Canadian teams where all born around the same few months. In a system in which achievement is based on individual worth, we would all assume the hardest work would convert to the best achievement. The fact this condition was just conquered by timing of birth and studies show that hidden advantage, namely being older and stronger than persons born later in the year of fitness brought permanent advantage, which produced Canada's most elite players.
If everyone born in 1981, as an example was qualified to begin play only in a single year, then naturally the older boys, being larger and more coordinated, would control. This seems unreal but this book states a connection between the success of the Beatles and bill gates.
Beatles succeeded for essentially the same reason.
Gladwell notes noting that musical geniuses like Mozart, achieved his status after about 10 years. 10 years is roughly how long it takes to put in 10,000 hours of hard practice. 10,000 hours is the magic number of greatness. Bill Joy at the University of Michigan as well as Bill Gates at Seattle's