I just finished reading Outliers "from Malcolm Gladwell.
This book is much better than his hippie, new age voodoo things called "Blink".
The long and short of the book: "hard work + + ambition + initiative (Chance) -> Success."
The premise of the book is the story of the only initiator alone without help rangers who overcomes the obstacles of life and rises to the top of life, like a phoenix rising from the ashes, is a myth.
He writes about two men Chris Langan and Oppenheimer. Both men are geniuses. You've probably heard of Oppenheimer, the father of the atomic bomb.
You may never have heard of Chris Langan and that is the whole point. Chris Langan was born a genius. He had learned to read at age three years. It settled at school to avoid having to take notes or prepare for exams like us mere mortals.
He liked the academic world. Where think that's it. Working in a bar as a bouncer! The difference between the two was that Chris Langan lacked practical intelligence. Social psychologists define the practice intelligence as the ability to say the right thing at the right time for the right person. I define social intelligence as "Street Smarts". An eloquent example of lack of social intelligence by Chris Langan was an anecdote in which he discusses the calculus teacher and is rejected by Professor Chris Langan says that lacks the intelligence to appreciate mathematics.
Throughout the conversation never managed to convey Chris's teacher how good he was in the calculation and how much he loved to participate in its debates. In one example also saying that Oppenheimer is a story about how he manages to get away with parole only after have been caught trying to poison his tutor at the university. But how does this story relate to the argument that the book weaves. Here's how. Oppenheimer father was a wealthy businessman. From an early age was exposed to trafficking Wheeling and learned much about human psychology. Chris Langan father was a drunk who beat her children. Chris and his siblings grew deep distrust of authority. Chris was education that proved his undoing. Malcolm cites cutting-edge research to highlight intellience the importance of practice. I quote my life lessons. Be advised, a high IQ is not enough.
In fact, Malcolm cites a study showing that beyond 150 does not, IQ is irrelevant. Another environmental factor is the culture of the society we live Malcolm will give the best explanation of how culture affects to us that what he had read on the web. There is a fascinating chapter entitled "The Theory of Ethnic Plane Crashes." There is an account of the frequency of Korea air was crashing their planes. If not for the tragic results comical.The this account is main culprit of the accidents are the culture. Korea is what is called a high PDI (Power Distance Index) culture. Because cooperation pilots and flight engineers were so friendly with the captain, the highest authority in the plane, was not a poor communication and coordination in the cockpit. Once this air accidents Korea eased dramatically reduced. I am a project manager for teamwork and communication is very important. I can not stop thinking about the results if applied mitigation strategy similar to corporate life. How much better would be the percentage of success of the project. Finally, this is the book that explains why some Asian cultures have a strong work ethic. You blame it on the cultivation of paddy rice. This type of agriculture requires labor intensive and sophisticated planning and coordination.
Hmm! The Rice is the dominant crop in southern India as well, but the author, as is the case for many Westerners, is predominantly focused on China.
Not in the books career development, but in this formula I found a lot about what makes for a satisfying career, a business successful and satisfactory.
The formula -> "The complexity, autonomy and a relationship between reward and effort"
Read this book to gain insight 50,000 feet on the great revolutions in human history, and how some people were well placed to benefit from it. It sensitizes us to the revolutions that we are living.
Read this book to understand the relationship between an individual and success in life is much more than just the individual. It is riding the wave of the family opportunistic breeding and placed in the right location at the right time.
Read this book if you want to get depressed about their current basis for the claims fatalism.Malcolm to predict the success of one on the basis of one year of birth and family history. How depressing it can be.
Hard work, ambition and initiative are necessary, but apparently not enough.
Malcolm said that hard work pays on all working hard. The chapters dealing with 10,000 hour rule and paddy cultivation allusion to this.
But in the end Malcolm leaves us hanging on whether the hard work in itself is sufficient. Not really clear.
Key phrases that I like the book:
The Matthew effect – "For everyone who has shall be given, and will have plenty. But what has not be taken away even the little that is "
Chinese proverb – "There is nobody who can get up before dawn three hundred days sixty years it can make your family rich ". (What fantastic work ethic!)
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