Hey guys we are back with another interesting book summary.
So let's start with the book outliers, which was written by Malcolm Gladwell.
Introduction,
what is an outlier ?
An outlier is a person who's done more than the ordinary. They stand out from the crowd. They have reached the peak of success. The outliers are the Geniuses, rock stars, athletes business tycoons and billionaires of the world.
What is their secret?
We always admire people who are successful. We are inspired by stories of Rags to Riches. We're interested to know them. What is their lifestyle? What is the personality do they have special talents? We think that these qualities explain their success, but there is a bigger picture that we're missing. We will find that there is something wrong with how we define success. We only say it has Personnel. We think that individuals who succeed did everything on their own it is their own abilities which led them to where they are a However is pure talent enough? What about a bringing? What about the people who helped them? What about the culture and Society they belong to by reading the stories of outliers. We will uncover the answers to these questions. We will have a new perspective of success.
Canadian Hockey is a very popular sport in Canada boys. They learn to play it starting from kindergarten. There is a hockey league every year at school. But how are the best players chosen for the national team? It is noticeable that the best hockey players were born in the month of January to March. How did this happen? Here's the secret the coaches actually choose the boys who are older in their class that is to say that if the boy is born in December,he would not be chosen to play for the team. This is because the older boy is more mature physically the Gap in months presents a huge difference in their body built. This selection happens for boys at age 9 to 10. The boys born earlier will be trained by the coach. They will practice three times more than the average by the time they reach their teens. The boys are already experts at playing hockey and they will move on to the The big leagues.
This is also the selection process for other sports, age difference is also valued in the Olympics the talent of children born on the later part of the year are being ignored younger children are often discouraged from the spot. But if the same opportunity is given to them their talents would also be honored. They would also be successful athletes the national hockey team of Canada became outliers because of coincidence.
From the day they're born earlier and more physically matured the opportunity for Success has been given to them it led from one opportunity to another we are a society who gives more advantage to those who are successful more doors would open to them and further Elevate their status. Meanwhile, those who fail are dismissed. We look up so much to individual achievement. We as a society Look the role that we play in determining who gets the opportunity and who does not.
10,000 hrs of practice isn't the thing you do. Once you're good. It's the thing you do that makes you good in the 1990s a group of psychologists conducted a study in the Academy of Music at Berlin. They wanted to know how much do talent and practice determine success do the violinist Excel because of the in it Talent or is it because of practice the psychologists observed that the more hours the students
In practice the better they become at playing violin as the children grow older. They spend more time practicing at 20 years old the best violinist have already spent 10,000 hours. The same study was conducted with pianists amateurs only spent two thousand hours since childhood, but the professionals increased practice hours every year by age 20. They have played a total of 10,000 hours the Ecologist found that there No, Naturals there exists no musician who became the best by practicing lesser hours to be a world-class in anything. You have to spend 10,000 hours other Studies have proven this magic number from musicians to athletes to writers two criminal masterminds. It takes 10,000 hours to be on top. It appears that our brain needs 10,000 hours to achieve expertise and mastery. But the thing is not everybody can afford to spend 10,000 hours. It is not possible to be achieved on your own as a child. You need to have supportive parents as an adult you need spare time, but if you're poor and have to work you would not have enough time for practice to have 10,000 hours is an extraordinary opportunity in itself take for example, Bill Gates. He's been programming since he was in eighth grade. That is Special opportunity because it was in the 1960s only rich people could afford to own a computer at that time Bill Gates father was a lawyer while his mother was also from a rich family. They enrolled him to an elite school in Seattle called Lakeside. It was one of the few schools in 1968, which had a computer Club since 8th grade to high school. Bill Gates was able to practice programming Non-Stop. When Bill Gates dropped out of college to start Microsoft, he had already spent 10,000 hours in programming. He was a brilliant programmer and entrepreneur but Bill Gates was able to have that unusual opportunity early on as Bill Gates said I was very lucky to be an outlier. You need to have that special opportunity. You need to be given that lucky break if you have an extraordinary Talent. You also need an opportunity to succeed
The Beatles lift up your heads and look at the image of a man who Rose from nothing who owned nothing to parentage or patronage? That is what Robert Winthrop said when he unveiled the statue of Benjamin Franklin, but two outliers really rise from nothing. We are obsessed by the autobiographies of successful people. They all have humble beginnings, but they conquered every Challenge and achieved success. They did it from their own unique abilities. What we don't see is that the great leaders like Franklin are beneficiaries of opportunities and advantages as well outliers old their success partly to their parents patrons and Community, they belong to the over to the legacies of their ancestors and their culture if we want to know how a person succeeded it is not enough to learn about his qualities.
We should also ask then and where did he grow up take? For example Beatles before becoming popular. They had this special opportunity in Hamburg Germany. It was in 1960 at that time. The Beatles was only a high school band hamburger was full of strip clubs back. Then the rock bands were invited to attract more customers. There was a club called Bruno which always featured bands from Liverpool England the owner Philip Norman. I wanted the bands to play non-stop for hours together as John Lennon said about their experience in Hamburg. We got better and got more confidence. We had to try even harder put our heart and soul into it get ourselves over the Beatles would play in Hamburg clubs for eight hours straight every night. They develop their creativity stamina and discipline in Liverpool. They would only play the same songs in one hour sets.
Didn't Hamburg The Beatles had to play different versions of the same song. They performed Rock and Jazz to cover for eight hours over the course of only 18 months The Beatles performed 217 nights in Hamburg, when they became popular in 1964, the band had already performed live thousand two hundred times. That is what set them apart from all other rock and roll bands. They had a lot of practice with live audience. Hamburg was beetles special opportunity. They became a City of culture and community of Hamburg Germany as Philip Norman said they were no good on stage when they went there and they were good when they came back this only like no one else. It was the making of them. Carnage Morgan and Rockefeller historians listed the 75 wealthiest people in the history of humanity. They started from the times of pharaohs and Cleopatra. They looked for the richest people from all over the world surprisingly 20% of them came from only one generation in America. And you Carnage was on that list. He was born in 1835 JP Morgan was born in 1837 while John Rockefeller.
Who's blind and 1839 there are 11 other Americans out of 75. They are all born from 1830 to 1840. All of them today are incredibly rich. Is it mere coincidence? What could be the reason behind this? If we study closely we will find out that from 1860s to 1870s. The economy of America had its biggest transformation. It was the era when Wall Street developed.
Manufacture of Steel started and railroads were constructed American economy shifted from traditional to Modern the outliers on the wealthiest list were all in the right age for this economic. Boom those born in the 1840s were too young while those born in 1820s were too old the ages of Carnage Morgan and Rockefeller would just write they became beneficiaries of the country's economic growth these We men had talent and vision but just like hockey players. They had the special opportunity. They came to dominate the world of finance and steel industry. They were born in the right place in the right time Bill Gates and Steve Jobs. Let us take a look at the outliers of Silicon Valley their special opportunity came in the year of 1975. It was when the personal computer Altair 8800 was released the older computer models.
Very expensive and very large but Altair 8800 only cost you three ninety seven dollars. It can be assembled and used at home. Anyone can own it the ear of personal computers started in 1975. If you were too old or Too Young at the time you would not have this special opportunity if you were born in 1958, you would have been in high school, but if you were born in 1952, you would probably be employed at IBM
In 1975 IBM was already an established company in Silicon Valley. It earned billions by producing mainframe computers those old enough to work were already there. They were already making a nice living but they belonged to the old Paradigm. They did not have the special opportunity. The right age for personal computer Revolution was to be born around 1955. This generation was straight out of college.
So to conclude we can say it's not mere hardwork and talent but its also a special opportunity which is needed .
These peoples identified the opportunity and grabbed it very well.
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Shubham Shah
( founder, Knowledge Mania )
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