03-07-2009, 03:54 AM
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Outliers is a non-fiction book written by Malcolm Gladwell and published by Little, Brown and Company on November 18, 2008. In Outliers, Gladwell examines the factors that contribute to high levels of success. To support his thesis, he examines the causes of why the majority of Canadian ice hockey players are born in the first few months of the calendar year, how Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates achieved his extreme wealth, and how two people with exceptional intelligence, Christopher Langan and J. Robert Oppenheimer, end up with such vastly different fortunes. Throughout the publication, Gladwell repeatedly mentions the "10,000-Hour Rule", claiming that the key to success in any field is simply a matter of practicing a specific task for a total of 10,000 hours. Gladwell, a writer for The New Yorker, usually focuses on composing non-fiction articles, which sometimes pass as memes into the popular imagination. He wrote two books before Outliers, both of which went on to become best-sellers: The Tipping Point (2000) and Blink (2005).
After I read this book I could not stop thinking about the Hip. At what point do you think they reached 10,000 hours?
Outliers is a non-fiction book written by Malcolm Gladwell and published by Little, Brown and Company on November 18, 2008. In Outliers, Gladwell examines the factors that contribute to high levels of success. To support his thesis, he examines the causes of why the majority of Canadian ice hockey players are born in the first few months of the calendar year, how Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates achieved his extreme wealth, and how two people with exceptional intelligence, Christopher Langan and J. Robert Oppenheimer, end up with such vastly different fortunes. Throughout the publication, Gladwell repeatedly mentions the "10,000-Hour Rule", claiming that the key to success in any field is simply a matter of practicing a specific task for a total of 10,000 hours. Gladwell, a writer for The New Yorker, usually focuses on composing non-fiction articles, which sometimes pass as memes into the popular imagination. He wrote two books before Outliers, both of which went on to become best-sellers: The Tipping Point (2000) and Blink (2005).
After I read this book I could not stop thinking about the Hip. At what point do you think they reached 10,000 hours?