Outliers: The Story of Success
[By staff reporters]
This book was the third non-fiction book written by Malcolm Gladwell and published by Little, Brown and Company on November 18, 2008.
In Outliers, Gladwell examined the factors that contribute to high levels of success.
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To support his thesis, he examined 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, how the Beatles became one of the most successful musical acts in human history, how Joseph Flom built Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom into one of the most successful law firms in the world, how cultural differences play a large part in perceived intelligence and rational decision making, 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 it is the key to achieving world-class expertise in any skill.
But, is he correct?
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MORE: https://www.businessinsider.com/expert-rule-10000-hours-not-true-2017-8
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