Outliers The Story of Success

Well, I'm a giant fan of your work man, particularly outliers. I really love that book. It's very illuminating and sort of peels away the mystery of talent.

I was listening to this Malcolm Gladwell book on tape. It's called Outliers.

And this movie, or this book, rather, the Malcolm Gladwell book, was all about extraordinary performances.

And now you're just flipping poop water up onto your nether regions and it's no longer helpful. So the idea that you could just sit there and spray a pump, a stream of water on there and not have to just flick the stuff out of the basin onto you. That's an enormous advancement.

And they reach some critical point, tipping point as Malcolm Gladwell would put it.

And now you're just flipping poop water up onto your nether regions and it's no longer helpful. So the idea that you could just sit there and spray a pump, a stream of water on there and not have to just flick the stuff out of the basin onto you. That's an enormous advancement. And they came along pretty early. I think the 1750s, right? Yeah. That's about when the little spray thing came along. That's beautiful. And Chuck, one other thing too. I think about the same time that that pump handle came along, they also installed like a refillable tank. So you fill the water with tank and everything that was in the basin was all just wastewater. So you were good to go by 1750 as far as bidets were concerned. Yes. Everything was totally clean and totally safe by 1750. Nothing could possibly go wrong. Yeah, that tipping point as Malcolm Gladwell would put it.

And now you're just flipping poop water up onto your nether regions and it's no longer helpful. So the idea that you could just sit there and spray a pump, a stream of water on there and not have to just flick the stuff out of the basin onto you. That's an enormous advancement.

And reach some critical point, tipping point as Malcolm Gladwell would put it.

My guest today is a New York Times bestselling author of books such as Outliers, The Tipping Point, and Blink.

I don't know if you've ever read Malcolm Gladwell's books, but outliers.

Outliers, you know, the classics.

And he gave me Outliers and I was like, man, thanks.

Most people who have heard of the 10,000 hour rule heard of it via the book Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell.

I think he's really done something very important, helping people see the necessity of this extended training period before you reach high levels of performance.

But I think there's really nothing magical about 10,000 hours.

One example that you give that Malcolm Gladwell writes about in Outliers that you say looks good on first glance, maybe to a layperson, but falls apart upon inspection is the Beatles playing all those nights in clubs in Hamburg.

And there's a sentence in, I believe it's the chapter called the 10,000 hour rule in Outliers, where you write that 10,000 hours is the magic number of greatness.

The kind of deliberate practice that kind of went viral when Malcolm Gladwell wrote Outliers.

The point of Outliers, I mean, there's a number of points, but one is that I wanted people to move away from the notion of success as something individual.

And I wanted to get people to understand that a lot of success has to do with chance, with the contribution of your culture, your generation, your family.

I agree that that would be in the average takeaway.

The 10,000 hour stuff that I put in Outliers was really only intended to perform a very specific narrative function or not narrative function, but kind of argumentative function, which was to me, the point of 10,000 hours is if it takes that long to be good, you can't do it by yourself.

So there's a sentence in, I believe it's the chapter called the 10,000 hour rule in Outliers, where you write that 10,000 hours is the magic number of greatness.

You may have heard of the 10,000-hour rule, the idea that you need to practice for 10,000 hours to become great at something.

That idea originates from the research of Anders Ericsson and his colleagues.

Most people who have heard of the 10,000 hour rule heard of it via the book Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell.

Now, right, Gladwell basically thought that was kind of an interesting magical number and suggested that the key here is to reach that 10,000 hours.

The 10,000 hours stuff that I put in Outliers was really only intended to perform a very specific narrative function or not narrative function but argumentative function.

I think that it's Malcolm Gladwell's book. Outliers maybe about pockets of people who form, you know, ice skaters, hockey players, and all the variables that create a grouping of people.

Did I write a primer for neurotic middle-class helicopter parents?

If you were somebody who was quote redshirted your child because he was born or she was born in the second half of the year, it may be because of this book.

one of the arguments that I make is how much your birthday matters in terms of sports achievement and academic achievement.

This was a cry for institutional change.

We shouldn't be leaving this responsibility of giving your kid a fair chance to the parent. That's nuts.

That's from outliers.

I remember reading Malcolm Gladwell's Outliers and it was like you've got to have 10,000 hours to even be considered an expert.

Malcolm Gladwell said it in the book Outliers he said if you spent you need to spend 10 thousand hours of excellent practice meaning getting better each time you do the repetition not just doing it over and over wrong but 10 thousand hours at something and have a little bit of a gift at it to get to be Tiger Woods to get to be Brad Paisley at a guitar to get to be Peyton Manning or Tom Brady with a football.

your books, Outliers, Blink, have been very formative for me over the last 10 years.

He's written five New York Times Best-Selling books including "The Tipping Point", "Blink", "Outliers", and more.

Malcolm Gladwell did an interesting book on on genius and I think also a key component of genius is being literally Unafraid like you just never look in the mirror and worry about what you Look like

This was years before Malcolm's book, Outliers, which I think was like 2006 or something.

Perhaps you've read one of his New York Times bestselling books like The Tipping Point or Outliers, or maybe you listen to Malcolm's podcast Revisionist History.

But you should define that.

An idea that you thoroughly decimated in Outliers, I will point out.

A couple of years ago, I wrote a book called Outliers.

So I turned to the iconic public speaker, best-selling author of multiple zeitgeist-making books like The Tipping Point and Outliers, among others.

The Tipping Point and Outliers, among others.

I think a lot of people have read Malcolm Gladwell's book where he talks about the 10,000 hours.

And one time when his book came out, I said, yeah, I did that and more.

I've been reading Malcolm Gladwell's book Outliers and there's this part in it where he talks about the anomaly of commercial airline crashes.

I think there's a whole book entitled Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell, right?

I never read it, but I always wanted to.

I think I've been on my shelf for the last five years and then maybe I don't need it. Never read it, but I have to get it back.

So that's what he writes about. He writes about theories and society and trends and changes.

the past year has seen them tackle anything from Malcolm Gladwell's outliers to selfimprovement tomes like Atomic Habits.

the 10,000 hours that Malcolm Gladwell, the brother from Canada, talks about in Outliers.

Well, ever since I wrote my book, Outliers, a big theme of Outliers was this notion of what is meaningful work.

it's a great book called outliers written some years ago