Benchmark #2- Book Outliers- Part II

Have you ever wondered, how successful people become successful? Well in this book you will learn just that and even more interesting you will learn about what factors sets them apart from all the rest. If you pay close attention you might even find out if you have some of these characteristics. This book states a lot of things that you would not normally think about from successful people. You will learn how to become and expert by learning the 10,0000 hour rule. Above all I feel that you would enjoy this book because it takes your mind to a whole other level with successful people. The name of the book that I will be talking about today is OUTLIERS. The author of this book is Malcolm Gladwell, he has written other books such as, The Tipping Point, Clink, What the Dog Saw, and David and Goliath. The publisher is Little Brown and Company and they originally published in hardcover by November, 2008. This book has three-hundred nine from introduction to index, it has more than that if you add the extras to it. Basically, this book is about learning what sets some of the successful people away from the regular people because very easily the successful people could have never been successful at all had it not been for their outlying differences. In the first seven pages the book shows how some people have rated Mr. Gladwells' book. The contents follow the next three pages. This book has two parts to it, the first part talks about Opportunity, and the second part talks about the Legacy. Then it begins with and introduction of the Roseto Mystery it is a nice little story about a little town on a hill and how it even came to be a town, and how they hardly have any heart attacks their mission is to find out why there have not been any deaths with heart attacks. The first chapter talks about the Matthew effect, mentioning that one would have to be born at the right time in order to be successful. Chapter two talks about the 10,000 hour rule thus saying that one has to practice for at least 10,000 hours or more in order to have achieved the level of mastery. Chapter three talks about the trouble with the genius part I and it mentions that the IQ score can only factor in so many numbers any additional IQ points don't translate into any measureable real-world advantage. Chapter four talks about the trouble with the genius part II mentions the fact that no one makes it alone. It also mentions the fact that even smart people make mistakes. Chapter five talks about how your background may also have to do with your success depending where they are from. Little word of advice I don't believe it, I think its more what your parents instill in you, the morals that they teach you is very important when your at a young age. Now we move on to the legacy Part II of the OUTLIERS book. Chapter six talks about whether or not the traditions and attitudes we inherit from our forebears can play the same role. Chapter seven talks about the investigation of plane crashes and if it had anything to do with our pilots ethnic background. Chapter eight talks about why Asians are much better in math that any other ethnic group. Chapter nine talks about a school that gives minority children from low income children the opportunity to succeed in life and they explain their teaching techniques a little bit. The epilogue talks about Jamaica, which is the ancestor of the author Malcolm Gladwell. He talks about how is mom and dad got together and he also talks about his grandparents and how they struggled but how they came up in the world. The part of this book that caught my attention was when Gladwell mentioned the brief story of Renee the nurse that was doing an eighth grade problem in which she got stuck at. I believe the problem had to do with the slope, x, and y axis. The reason why I like it so much or it was like a key moment for me was because it reminded me of me. Similar to something that I was going through just last week, when I got stuck in a statistics problem. Any who enough about me, so Gladwell goes on to mention that she persists and persists on the problem until about twenty two minutes later when she finally finds her right answer. The way she worked her problem, the not giving up, and the talking to herself, I felt her pain. Gladwell then starts talking about a teacher at Berkley, Schoenfeld, and his method to problem solving. Schoenfeld gives his students a take home exam, which is a problem that he himself cannot solve, and he give them two weeks to work through it before turning it in, also warning them that if they start working on it the second week they will be in big trouble. The concept of his madness is to get his students to unlearn the mathematical habits they picked up on the way to the University. He wants them to master mathematics by simply trying the problem out. Now here comes the part that makes it worth something well at least to me. Success is a function of persistence and doggedness and the willingness to work hard for twenty-two minutes to make sense of something that most people would give up on after thirty seconds. I like the book but I am not sure if I would recommend it. The information was good, I just was not sure on the accuracy of it. I think I would have to test out the outcome and the probability of the scenarios. I am just kidding I do not think that I will by testing anything out. I am serious about the not sure if I would recommend it though. In the very first page it did show some of the comments from people about this book that were really good, but I would not be sure who to recommend it to. I liked the book because it opened my mind to new thinking skills of how I think about successful people. I liked the book because some of the things Gladwell talked about made sense to me. The reason that I am not sure if I would recommend it is because I don't know who I would recommend to and why I would recommend it to them.