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Malcolm Gladwell and The Tragically Hip- Outliers - NegPhil - 03-07-2009
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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?
Re: Malcolm Gladwell and The Tragically Hip- Outliers - chris - 03-07-2009
About 8 years into their life as a band...
Formed in 1985.
Recorded DFN in 1993.
Re: Malcolm Gladwell and The Tragically Hip- Outliers - Lizard King - 03-07-2009
chris Wrote:About 8 years into their life as a band...
Formed in 1985.
Recorded DFN in 1993.
Looking at live shows, 5,000 2hr shows would make 10,000, not all shows are exactly 2hrs long but its gotta be pretty close and just got me thinking about something.
Chris you (or anyone for that matter) know how many shows the band has played in their career thus far??
Anyone care to guess..