O u-t-l-i-e-r-s by Malcolm Gladwell

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Source: Outliers: The Story of Success by: Malcolm Gladwell

Outliers deals with exceptional people,

especially those who are smart, rich, and

successful, and those who operate at the

extreme outer edge of what is statistically

plausible.


No suicide

No alcoholism

No addiction

No welfare

No crime

No ulcers

Big fat smokers

“These people were dying from old age, that’s it.”


Must have been genetics

Must have been diet

Must have been exercise

Must have been the area the lived

Must have been….


What caused it? 22 Civic organizations

Three generations under one roof

Friends talking on the street

Transplanted the Paesani culture from Southern Italy

Insulated them from the pressures of the modern

world


“For unto everyone that hath shall be

given, and he shall have abundance.

But from him that hath not shall be

taken away even that which he

hath.”


“People don’t rise from nothing.”

“We do owe something to parentage and patronage.”

“The people who stand before kings may look like they did it all by themselves. But in fact they are invariably the beneficiaries of hidden advantage and extraordinary opportunities and cultural legacies that allow them to learn and work hard and make sense of the world in ways others cannot.”


An analysis of a highly successful Canadian

hockey team found:

40% of the players were born between January

and March

30% were born between April and June

20% were born between July and September

10% were born between October and December


In Canada the eligibility cut off for

age-class (club) hockey is January 1

Those players born early in the year are bigger

and more mature than those born later in the

year

As a consequence, the older players perform

better and are picked for advanced placement

where they receive better coaching and more

playing time


Passion Talent Hard work

Hidden

opportunit

y


The best students get the best teachers and

the most attention


Starts early

Practices more than peers

Succeeds in his career


Not all hockey players born in January

become “all-stars”

Do they have innate talent?

“Achievement is talent plus preparation.”

Preparation plays the biggest role

Practice isn't the thing you do once you're

good. It's the thing you do that makes you

good.


What makes a musician?

Practice

Music Teachers = 4,000 hours

Good Musicians = 8,000 hours

Great Musicians = 10,000 hours / 10 Years

There Are No Naturals and No Grinds!


“They work much, much harder.”

In study after study and industry after industry

The Magic Number is?

10,000 hours


• If you were too old for the personal computer revolution in 1975 you were probably born before 1952

• If you were born after 1959 you were probably too young

• Leaders of the personal computer revolution:– Bill Gates – 1955 (Microsoft)

– Paul Allen – 1953 (Microsoft #2)

– Steve Ballmer – 1956 (Microsoft #24)

– Steve Jobs – 1955 (Apple)

– Eric Schmidt – 1955 (PARC, Sun (Java), Novell, Google)

Gladwell relates several examples of people who were

successful because they had the right skills at the right time.


“Knowledge of a boy’s IQ is of little help if you are

faced with a formful of clever boys.”

- Liam Hudson


Average IQ = 100

Einstein IQ = 150

Henry Crowell IQ = 140

Chris Langan IQ = 195

“Termites” Genetic Studies of Genius by Lewis Terman

Nothing can hold folks this smart back, right?

It is more about opportunity than it is about talent!


“A basketball player only has to be tall enough”

“A mature scientist with an adult IQ of 130 is as likely to win a Nobel Prize as one whose IQ is 180.”

- Liam Hudson

“The relationship between success and IQ works only up to a point.”

You only have to be smart enough!


Extraordinary intelligence is of little use if we want

to understand a persons chance of being successful in

the world.


Had IQ 30% > Einstein’s.

His mother was estranged from her family.

He won and then lost a scholarship at Reed

College.

He transferred to Montana State University

only to leave when a professor showed no

interest in helping him.

And he ended up working factory jobs and as

bouncer for a bar on Long Island.

http://www.superscholar.org/interviews/christopher-michael-langan/

http://www.superscholar.org/interviews/christopher-michael-langan/


Chris Langan - Harvard backwards

Robert Oppenheimer – Tried to kill his tutor.

Get the world to see things your way!

Oppenheimer's affluent

background helped give him

the skills necessary to

become successful.

Father of atomic bomb


WHOM

TO SAY


Two types of Parenting

Heavily involved and scheduled

Creates the right to pursue their individualism

Not involved and unscheduled

Creates a sense of distance

It is not genetic, its not racial, its cultural

Terman found that “almost none of the genius children

from the lowest social and economic class ended up

making a name for themselves.”


“Captain, the weather radar has helped us a lot.”


It takes a series of events (7)

Hierarchy

Cultural communications

Cultural ambiguity

You must communicate up and down the hierarchy

and and across the cultural highway


Cultures that encourage passive submission to

hierarchy, or who phrase their questions in

subtle, vague euphemisms, may find

themselves at a disadvantage in some

situations, such as the airplane cockpit.


Weekdays

•7:25 AM -5:00 PM some till 7:00 PM

Saturday

• 9:00 AM to 1:00 PM

Summers

•8:00 AM to 2:00 PM

Hard work – Long Hours – New Friends

Long Commute

50% to 60% more learning time

Homework till Midnight

Discipline.


Mid-90’s – Grades 5-8

@ Lou Gehrig Middle School, South Bronx

90 Minutes of English/day

90 Minutes of Math/day

(2 hr/day in 5th grade)

95% at or above grade level in math

90% get private HS Scholarships

86% to college (1st generation for many)


1. Success is predictable

2. It is not the brightest who succeed

3. Outliers take maximum advantage of the

opportunities that are made available to

them

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