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"Outliers" Quotes
"Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell explores how extraordinary success is less about individual talent and more about a combination of opportunity, cultural background, and hard work.
psychology | Published in 2008
Quotes
It is not the brightest who succeed… nor is success simply the sum of the decisions and efforts we make on our own behalf. It is, rather, a gift.
We are too much in awe of those who succeed and far too dismissive of those who fail.
The 10,000-Hour Rule says that if you look at any kind of cognitively complex field, true expertise is reached by practicing, for the most part, around 10,000 hours.
The miracle of the mind is that it can do such a thing as learn.
Outliers are those who have been given opportunities—and who have had the strength and presence of mind to seize them.
Success is the result of what sociologists like to call 'accumulative advantage.'
To build a better world we need to replace the patchwork of lucky breaks and arbitrary advantages that today determine success.
Superstar lawyers and math whizzes and software entrepreneurs appear at first blush to lie outside ordinary experience. But they don’t.
The people who stand before kings may look like they did it all by themselves. But in fact they are invariably the beneficiaries of hidden advantages and extraordinary opportunities and cultural legacies that allow them to learn and work hard and make sense of the world in ways others cannot.
It’s not enough to ask what successful people are like. It is only by asking where they are from that we can unravel the logic behind who succeeds and who doesn’t.