Outliers

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 He asks the question what makes high achievers different His answer is that we pay too much attention to what successful people are like, and too little attention to where they are from that is, their culture, their family, their generation, and the idiosyncratic experiences of their upbringing Along the way he explains the secrets of software billionaires, what it takes to be a great soccer player, why Asians are good at math, and what made the Beatles the greatest rock band. Download Outliers – kino-fada.fr Gladwell argues that success is tightly married to opportunity and time on task He states that it takes approximately 10,000 hours to master something and that gives me comfort It helps me feel better about my many failures at initial attempts to master things like glazing pottery, algebra, Salsa dancing, skiing and sewing to name a few I kept thinking, I ve just got to put inhours if I want to do better While I can see a different way of spinning the data provided to support Gl Gladwell argues that success is tightly married to opportunity and time on task He states that it takes approximately 10,000 hours to master something and that gives me comfort It helps me feel better about my many failures at initial attempts to master things like glazing pottery, algebra, Salsa dancing, skiing and sewing to name a few I kept thinking, I ve just got to put inhours if I want to do better While I can see a different way of spinning the data provided to support Gladwell s argument, I didn t care In a rare moment, I found myself not wanting to argue Instead, I found myself reflecting on things that have felt like lucky opportunities in my own life This reflection was very humbling Moreover, I felt the text tugging at the need for greater equity What could all the people with limited opportunities do if given greater opportunities Think Darfur How many people who might have come up with the cure for pancreatic cancer been...When I think about Malcolm Gladwell, the first phrase that comes to mind is less than meets the eye At first glance, his work seems thoroughly researched, even visionary at times Beginning with a few maverick, counter intuitive insights, he often ends with an affirmation of consensus, but it is a consensus that has been broadened by investigation and enriched by nuance.On second look, however, I m no longer sure any of this is true What first appeared to be new insights are nothing but fami When I think about Malcolm Gladwell, the first phrase that comes to mind is less than meets the eye At first glance, his work seems thoroughly researched, even visionary at times Beginning with a few maverick, counter intuitive insights, he often ends with an affirmation of consensus, but it is a consensus that has been broadened by investigation and enriched by nuance.On second look, however, I m no longer sure any of this is true What first appeared to be new insights are nothing but familiar landmarks, previously unrecognizable because of the adoption of a deliberately mannered perspective even the once apparent breadth and nuance now seem triumphs of language over logic, the apparent inevitability of his arguments an illusion conjured by the spell of his limpid prose.Take one small example from Outliers With a flurry of standardized test statistics, Gladwell makes the case that the traditional summer vacation however rewarding it ...I know, you don t think you have the time and there are other andimportant books to read at the moment, but be warned, you do need to read this book.There are a number of ways I can tell a book will be good one of those ways is if Graham has recommended it to me how am I going to cope without our lunches together, mate And there is basically one way for me to I know that I ve really enjoyed a book, and that is if I keep telling people about it over and over again Well, not since Pred I know, you don t think you have the time and there are other andimportant books to read at the moment, but be warned, you do need to read this book.There are a number of ways I can tell a book will be good one of those ways is if Graham has recommended it to me how am I going to cope without our lunches together, mate And there is basically one way for me to I know that I ve really enjoyed a book, and that is if I keep telling people about it over and over again Well, not since Predictably Irrationalalso recommended to me by Graham have I gone on and on about a book to people First to Ruth over lunch, then to mum on the phone, and then the kids after they had just gotten out of bed in the early hours of the afternoon my poor children, I ve told...Didn t exactly read this book Joe and I listened to it in the car on the way home from visiting family for Christmas I really enjoyed it, and was very fascinated by certain parts of it, especially the sections about the Beatles, computer programmers and Korean co pilots.But my enjoyment of the book was marred by the glaring absence of any well known female outliers By chapter four or so, I noticed it and mentioned it to Joe, and then it just kept getting worse to the point that it was comi Didn t exactly read this book Joe and I listened to it in the car on the way home from visiting family for Christmas I really enjoyed it, and was very fascinated by certain parts of it, especially the sections about the Beatles, computer programmers and Korean co pilots.But my enjoyment of the book was marred by the glaring absence of any well known female outliers By chapter four or so, I noticed it and mentioned ...Occasionally insightful, but Gladwell s science is pretty junky His reasons for success change by the page And he cherry picks examples to exactly fit the scheme under consideration Plus, he s obsessed with callbacks and summary statements that only showcase the faulty connections between ideas.This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers To view it, click here Malcolm Gladwell s new book reads like a series of cocktail party anecdotes Whether the book is a mere fluff piece or somethingis open to debate At its heart, it has two themes 1 That success depends not just on talent but opportunity, and 2 that success and failure also depend on the cultural legacies we inherit from our forebears Boiled down, here are his essential ideas OPPORTUNITY1 Luck matters Hockey players who happened to be born between January and March were disproport Malcolm Gladwell s new book reads like a series of cocktail party anecdotes Whether the book is a mere fluff piece or somethingis open to debate At its heart, it has two themes 1 That success depends not just on talent but opportunity, and 2 that success and failure also depend on the cultural legacies we inherit from our forebears Boiled down, here are his essential ideas OPPORTUNITY1 Luck matters Hockey players who happened to be born between January and March were disproportionately represented in professional hockey leagues From an early age, these players were the oldest in their age bracket, and therefore bigger andcoordinated Coaches selected them for better training and playing opportunities, and overtime, success bred success Likewise, students who happened to be older for their class scored h...I can save you the trouble of reading the book smart people don t automatically become successful, they do so because they got lucky This rule applies to everyone including the likes of Bill Gates and Robert Oppenheimer That s it That s what the whole book is about Gladwell looks at case after case of this Canadian hockey players, Korean airline pilots, poor kids in the Bronx, Jewish lawyers, etc Even with all this evidence it feels like he s pulling in examples that fit his theory and I can save you the trouble of reading the book smart people don t automatically become successful, they do so because they got lucky This rule applies to everyone including the likes of Bill Gates and Robert Oppenheimer That s it That s what the whole book is about Gladwell looks at case after case of this Canadian hockey players, Korean airline pilots, poor kids in the Bronx, Jewish lawyers, etc Even with all this evidence it feels like he s pulling in examples that fit his theory and ignoring others Thus while we look at many examples of geniuses who got lucky we do not look at Einstein which seems strange as he s th...Here s what I wrote earlier I have to admit to theI think and talk about the book, the less I think of it It all seems too superficial.A pretty interesting book, albeit with not quite as many knock me over with a feather moments as Blink It starts off with a bang, as he discusses amateur hockey teams and how it was noticed that virtually all the players on an Under 18 hockey team came from the first three months of the year Turns out the age cutoff is January 1 in Canada, so the olde Here s what I wrote earlier I have to admit to theI think and talk about the book, the less I think of it It all seems too superficial.A pretty interesting book, albeit with not quite as many knock me over with a feather moments as Blink It starts off with a bang, as he discusses am...People are criticizing this book because it is not a journal article Well guess what we re not all sociologists I have read plenty of journal articles in my own field law I m in no position to read journal articles in fields outside my own Having a well written piece of mass market writing is just the thing I need to access this information.Another criticism of the book is that Gladwell is the master of the anecdote Well, it seems to me that ALL SOCIAL SCIENCE is in some sense anecdota People are criticizing this book because it is not a journal article Well guess what we re not all sociologists I have read plenty of journal articles in my own field law I m in no position to read journal articles in fields outside my own Having a well written piece of mass market writing is just the thing I need to access this information.Another criticism of the book is that Gladwell is the master of the anecdote Well, it seems to me that A...I skimmed this book instead of reading it I didn t entirely love it.Although the author makes some interesting points, I find some of the correlations he tries to draw a little silly Like the Italian community in Pennsylvania where people are healthier and live longer because they have a sense of community or the fact that Southerners reactviolently to certain situations than Northerners because they derive from a culture of honor Sounds like extrapolated horseshit to me, especially I skimmed this book instead of reading it I didn t entirely love it.Although the author makes some interesting points, I find some of the correlations he tries to draw a little silly Like the Italian community in Pennsylvania where people are healthier and live longer because they have a sense of community or the fact that Southerners reactviolently to certain situations than Northerners because they derive from a culture of honor Sounds like extrapolated horseshit to me, especially considering the sample size And when the author is making sense, I feel like he isn t telling us anything we don t already know Like the fact that success breeds success, opportunity is key, practice pays off, etc One of the few things I do find interesting, however, are difference...

• English
• 26 July 2018
Malcolm Gladwell
• Hardcover
• 309 pages
• 0316017922
• Malcolm Gladwell
• Outliers