Just a heads up I've changed books. I'm now reading Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell. The point he is trying to make is success isn't all that we make it. The "outliers" of society didn't just get successful on their hard work and determination alone, no they got really lucky and caught some huge breaks; that genes and demographic did play a role in their success, for example he compares to geniuses, one grew up in a lower class family the other in a rich middle class family. It played a huge roll in how the interacted in the world around them. One tried to poison his tutor in collage and got away with just a slap on the wrist, the other couldn’t get a break. The difference was the way they grew up, the genius from the lower class family wasn't taught how to talk to authority figures, the other learned to be assertive and how to communicate with authority. Their demography played a huge role in how they turned out.
Mr. Gladwell poses some interesting questions:
How does someone’s birthday change effect what they are going to do?
How did the era that these people grew up in effect how they reached success?
How did their going up effect how they did as an adult?
What break did they get that gave them that extra boost that made them an “outlier”?
They are interesting, but the question he is really asking is, what made these people outliers?
The answer: they had determination and worked hard and they got really lucky. That was one the hugest differences between outliers and the rest of us.
Here are a few questions you can chew over for next week:
Have you caught any breaks that have given you an edge?
Are you the making of an Outlier?
Mr. Gladwell poses some interesting questions:
How does someone’s birthday change effect what they are going to do?
How did the era that these people grew up in effect how they reached success?
How did their going up effect how they did as an adult?
What break did they get that gave them that extra boost that made them an “outlier”?
They are interesting, but the question he is really asking is, what made these people outliers?
The answer: they had determination and worked hard and they got really lucky. That was one the hugest differences between outliers and the rest of us.
Here are a few questions you can chew over for next week:
Have you caught any breaks that have given you an edge?
Are you the making of an Outlier?
