After finished reading The Google Story, I immediately took Outliers down from my bookshelf.
Yet reached Page 126, Chapter 5.
So what Outliers means exactly? The author showed us the answer in the Introduction:
1: something that is situated away from or classed different from a main or related body.
2: a statistical observation that is markedly different in value from the others of the sample.
Subtitled “The Story of Success”, the author Malcolm Gladwell
argues that the true story of success is very different, and that if we want to understand how and why some people thrive, we should look around them — at things like their family, their birthplace, even their birth date.
In Chapter 1, which titled The Matthew Effect, Gladwell shows how much “all-star” hockey players are influenced by their birth date.
In Chapter 2, which titled The 10,000-Hour Rule, he argues that if you want to be a world-class expert in any field, you MUST spend AT LEAST 10,000 HOURS(about ten years or so) in training yourself. This is true from Mozzart to the Beatles to Bill Gates.
In Chapter 3 and 4, which titled The Trouble With Geniuses(Part 1, Part 2), with the comparition between Chris Langan(a high-IQ man who is ignored by almost everyone) and Robert Oppenheimer(the physical theorist who directed the Manhattan Project which developed the atomic-bomb), he explains why high-IQ doesn’t always produce Nobel Prizer winner or something like that.
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