Outliers By Malcom Gladwell
Has anyone read or heard of this book? It's really good... Outliers, a study of success.
Not your typical "Self-Help" style book, it's more of an Analysis. A couple of very interesting themes in the book. The most interesting being the 1,000 hours rule. This basically says that to be good, or great, at anything you have to first practice it for 1,000 hours... pretty interesting especially in a world of instant gratification, microwaves, 18 month college degrees, and fast food. Makes me wonder how many "greats" we'll have in the future if we don't have the patience or diligence to put in the work required to be great... do we all just expect everything to be easy? My father always told me that; nothing worth having in life is ever easy...
From Malcom Galdwells blog in which he describes the book a bit:
1. What is an outlier?
"Outlier" is a scientific term to describe things or phenomena that lie outside normal experience. In the summer, in Paris, we expect most days to be somewhere between warm and very hot. But imagine if you had a day in the middle of August where the temperature fell below freezing. That day would be outlier. And while we have a very good understanding of why summer days in Paris are warm or hot, we know a good deal less about why a summer day in Paris might be freezing cold. In this book I'm interested in people who are outliers—in men and women who, for one reason or another, are so accomplished and so extraordinary and so outside of ordinary experience that they are as puzzling to the rest of us as a cold day in August.
I hope you get a chance to read and enjoy this book!
Not your typical "Self-Help" style book, it's more of an Analysis. A couple of very interesting themes in the book. The most interesting being the 1,000 hours rule. This basically says that to be good, or great, at anything you have to first practice it for 1,000 hours... pretty interesting especially in a world of instant gratification, microwaves, 18 month college degrees, and fast food. Makes me wonder how many "greats" we'll have in the future if we don't have the patience or diligence to put in the work required to be great... do we all just expect everything to be easy? My father always told me that; nothing worth having in life is ever easy...
From Malcom Galdwells blog in which he describes the book a bit:
1. What is an outlier?
"Outlier" is a scientific term to describe things or phenomena that lie outside normal experience. In the summer, in Paris, we expect most days to be somewhere between warm and very hot. But imagine if you had a day in the middle of August where the temperature fell below freezing. That day would be outlier. And while we have a very good understanding of why summer days in Paris are warm or hot, we know a good deal less about why a summer day in Paris might be freezing cold. In this book I'm interested in people who are outliers—in men and women who, for one reason or another, are so accomplished and so extraordinary and so outside of ordinary experience that they are as puzzling to the rest of us as a cold day in August.
I hope you get a chance to read and enjoy this book!
Tags: Gladwell, Maloom, Outliers
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Permalink Reply by Se Reed on -
I have wanted to read this. Thanks for the post. Also: did you watch Reading Rainbow as a kid? =)
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Permalink Reply by Maureen on -
Well, my KIDS watched Reading Rainbow (and I always found an excuse to sit and watch with them - such a great show). Hmmn, thanks for making me feel a wee bit old.
By the way, I saw the guy on Reading Rainbow, LeVar Burton, not only when he was on "Star Trek," but when he played a young Kunta Kinta in "Roots." I better stop this. I'm starting to sound like my mother. -
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