Outliers The Story of Success

I hate to sound like my boy who wrote the book on this the 10,000 hour guy I forgot his name Malcolm Gladwell

And that's, I think, where this idea that I talked about in one of my books, The Notion of 10,000 Hours, comes from.

I always come back to Malcolm Gladwell and thin slicing that you just look at a number and you realize hey something doesn't feel right about this or something is going to create an opportunity

I hate to sound like my boy who wrote the book on this the 10,000 hour guy I forgot his name Malcolm Gladwell

Christopher Langan ... Malcolm Gladwell writes quite sympathetically about why this might be. But it's a very good and sobering reminder of the fact that smart people don't always prosper.

Just like if you've read Outliers, Malcolm Gladwell. He would write like Bill Gates. He was born where there was a computer. He lived where there was a computer or he wouldn't have been able to be Bill Gates. Like in his town, it was like one of the only computers for hundreds of miles. Had that one computer not been where he was, he would not have been able to be the Bill Gates that we know.

he wrote outliers and Blink and David and Goliath and he's...

Last year I reread Outliers.

This is a concept that he popularized that you've probably heard. I know I've heard it.

And I believe it was called the 10,000 hour rule, perhaps.

Yeah, the idea being that if you started a baseline zero, then after 10,000 hours of regular practice, you will be not just competent but incredibly proficient at whatever you're trying to learn.

This is a con. There's a concept that he popularized that you've probably heard.

I think we've said it before on this show, but he at least popularized the concept that it requires 10,000 hours to become essentially a master of something right to master something.

And I believe it was called the 10,000 hour rule, perhaps.

We can look to Malcolm Gladwell in his book Outliers.

This is a con. There's a concept that he popularized that you've probably heard. I know I've heard it.

I think we've said it before on this show, but he at least popularized the concept that it requires 10,000 hours to become essentially a master of something right to master something.

And I believe it was called the 10,000 hour rule, perhaps.

Have you guys read that Malcolm Gladwell book Outliers?

Have you guys read that Malcolm Gladwell book Outliers?

read Malcolm Gladwell's book on outliers do that and then come back and start trusting right exactly and I mean Malcolm's latest book he was on the show last week oh wow Malcolm's latest book is all about hey your instincts probably totally wrong people get shot because you think your instincts are correct it's not really a good look you know

He wrote Outliers. He wrote the tipping point. His new book is called Talking to Strangers.

Like there's this whole 10,000 hour rule thing that Malcolm Gladwell popularized because that is just scientifically, you know, not there.

And there are two big problems one ericsons research said that 10,000 hours was the average across skills and across people because different skills take different amounts of time.

literally in the book outliers he does not use the word purposeful or deliberate anywhere he just used the word practice and the entire research is about deliberate practice which is also called purposeful practice.

I remember because I wrote for the college newspaper it was like I found out that one of the college professors at my college was like quoted in a Malcolm Gladwell book and I like that was like the extent of the greatness you know what I mean yeah.

read Malcolm Gladwell's book on Outliers do that and then come back and start trusting right

He wrote Outliers.

I read stuff that I haven't read in like 10, 12 years I think, like the tipping point from Malcolm Gladwell, outliers, you know, stuff I just like read the first chapter of five years ago and then put away. I finished that.

read Malcolm Gladwell's book on outliers do that and then come back and start trusting right exactly

Malcolm's latest book he was on the show last week oh wow Malcolm's latest book is all about hey your instincts probably totally wrong people get shot because you think your instincts are correct it's not really a good look you know

I read stuff that I haven't read in like 10, 12 years I think like the tipping point from Malcolm Gladwell, outliers, you know, stuff I just like read the first chapter of five years ago and then put away. I finished that.

Malcolm Gladwell talks about this okay and out his book outliers he defines what this means 10,000 hours or ten years of your time that's what it takes that's what it takes for it to be great at anything

You guys probably heard of Malcolm Gladwell he wrote a book called outliers he talks about all the people who became really great at something invested a minimum of 10,000 hours practicing literally 10,000 hours or 10 years and a bunch of people jumped all over him some of them were college professors guys who really you know the same guys who know shit but never actually did it and they said hey this isn't really true you have to figure in natural talent and opportunities and resources and privilege and blah blah blah and Gladwell said hey listen dude I get it of course natural talent is a factor no matter how often I practice playing chess I'm never going to be a grandmaster like Bobby Fischer.

There's a book called the outliers that I encourage young people to read and it's like, it talks about, you know, your 10,000 hours, um, you know, 10 years or 10,000 hours. Yeah. And it's like, until you've, until you've put that, that work in, you know, you still got a lot of work to do, you know?

It's one of Malcolm Gladwell's books. Yeah, you mean Outliers? Outliers. Where he talks about 10,000 days or 10,000 hours? To become an expert?

I remember I first read The Tipping Point, that I read Blink, then Outliers, most recently his book, then David and Goliath, which is also very good.

Malcolm Gladwell a great author was on our show years ago talking about how overvalued first round picks are in a salary cap environment the issue is not whether a first round player is better than a second round player the issue is is he better for the money than a second round player and the evidence is really overwhelming that second and third round players are massively undervalued so you should always trade down