I do respect “genius”, say, Einstein, Bill Gates, and I believe that their great success lie in their talent, their hard-working. In a word, I regard their success as a consequence of their own characteristic.
But, what about the outside environment? Did they rely on something on their way to success? Had things like birthplace, ethnic, …
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BookThinking:Everyone Is A Miracle
Finished Reading Outliers
I feel pleased finished reading this fantastic book.
Spent 2 days on it, I’ve learned many fresh ideas on the way I understand success(or more exactly, what lead to success).
Everything we have learned in Ourliers says that success follows a predictable course. It is not the brightest who succeed. If it were, Chris Langan would be …
Reading:Outliers
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 …
Finished Reading The Google Story
After several days’ effort. Finally, I finished reading The Google Story.
Eh…
What I wanna mention is its Chapter 24 : The China Syndrome
But getting more deeply involved in China posed problems too.The country was ruled by a sprawling Communist bureaucracy that actively monitored, restricted, and censored the Internet. Doing business there ran in the face of …
Reading:The Google Story
Yet I’m planning to read many English books.
I’ve bought The Google Story, Outliers, Blink, and Shelley’s Poetry and Prose.
CPY lent me Angles & Demons.
And my father bought a pair of Lost Horizon(One in Chinese,the other in English…).
So, you see really many books on my bookshelf.
Just as the title said, I’m now reading The Google Story(Updated …