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Outliers
- The Story of Success
- Narrateur(s): Malcolm Gladwell
- Durée: 7 h et 18 min
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- Catégories: Sciences sociales et politiques, Sciences sociales
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From the best-selling author of The Bomber Mafia, learn what sets high achievers apart - from Bill Gates to the Beatles - in this seminal work from "a singular talent" (New York Times Book Review).
In this stunning audiobook, Malcolm Gladwell takes us on an intellectual journey through the world of "outliers" - the best and the brightest, the most famous, and the most successful. He asks the question: What makes high-achievers different?
His answer is that we pay too much attention to what successful people are like, and too little attention to where they are from: That is, their culture, their family, their generation, and the idiosyncratic experiences of their upbringing. Along the way he explains the secrets of software billionaires, what it takes to be a great soccer player, why Asians are good at math, and what made the Beatles the greatest rock band.
Brilliant and entertaining, Outliers is a landmark work that will simultaneously delight and illuminate.
Featured Article: Quotes About Hard Work to Keep You Motivated and Moving Forward
Anything worth achieving is worth working for. Those goals that we reach when we really strive for them, giving it our all, are the most rewarding.
Whether it is taking small steps towards your goals, shooting for a new objective, or simply dreaming those big dreams, hard work is what gets us there. Trusting in yourself and your own abilities will allow you to dig deep, put in the time, and get where you want to be. Everything is achievable with the right mindset.
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- Kozmoe Fairly odd parent #2
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ok basic concepts
basic after chapter 5 don't waste your time 10000 hrs + = mastery overall decent
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Puts in perspective the true reasons of success
Biggest lesson: those who are outliers need both to work hard, and the ability to work hard
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- 2020-05-24
Nothing like Malcolm Gladwell in your ears
Malcolm Gladwell is a fantastic story teller. He formats his arguments elegantly, and backs them up when he needs to. This book if anything, will give you something to think about. An advantage to this audiobook is that’s it’s read by the author, and he does a phenomenal job. I can listen to Gladwell all day, everyday
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- Amazon Customer
- 2020-03-28
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thank you
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- Manvir singh
- 2020-08-08
Great book
I have listened first book from Malcolm but really do liked it it was somewhat boring in the start like just for a while but afterwards things started to get in perspective and everything got very interesting. The way he binded everything in the end by giving a personal example was exceptional and really great.
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- Tom
- 2020-06-17
success should lead to gratitude, not pride
reminded me of the story of the husband who prepared a beautiful breakfast in bed for his wife on Mother's Day and brought it into the bedroom with his 3 year old who proudly announced that she had made her mother breakfast in bed. she had carried the orange juice after all. Gladwell shows how often our successes are often more due to the efforts of others, sometimes of generations before us. Books like his and Talking to strangers were written for these days as we confront racism, sexism and many other structures and begin to see our some social privileges are very real, just seldom if ever earned by their recipients
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- Lester
- 2020-05-17
Great message but read it cover to cover!
The book holds a great message about how we may have a cognitive bias to give hard work ethic more weight than it should truly be credited. It reminds us that we are but a sum of our experiences and timings; however for much of the book it goes so far in this direction that it discredits hard work ethic too much and may validate certain people on why they haven't achieved all they've wished (when it could be they are just lazy!). In that, I think the book is too slow to acknowledging the power of hard work and how important it is to have a good head on your shoulders to seize opportunity! It is far more valuable to be street smart and creative than one may think!
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- Twisted Tbar
- 2022-05-19
Interesting Insights
Interesting insights to add to my worldview and understanding the interconnectedness of all of our individual experiences as well as the roles that communities and cultures play in the way we do things and the paths we end up on.
Great listen.
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- Kevin Mcisaac
- 2022-05-02
Enjoyed the writers stories and insights
stories andbfacts and figures around success are very interesting.
insights into some of the most successful people are worth the listen.
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- Joel B
- 2022-04-18
Don’t Fall Into The Victim Mentality
Don’t be the victim, recognize your opportunities and tackle them with a strong work effort.
If you don’t listen carefully to this book you could walk away with believing that life is rigged and there is nothing you can do about it.
What the book actually says is to be a hard worker so when opportunities present themselves you have what it takes to succeed.
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- Amazon Customer
- 2019-02-27
Those who appear to be extraordinary are ordinary people
In this book, Malcolm does a study of many of the highly successful people we know to prove that it is not mostly what they were born with, that is having a higher IQ or having a special talent who got them where they got. They had to put a huge amount of work, they took advantage of their environment, the period where they were born, gifts from their past generations and more. The example of Bill Gates show it clearly that he was advantaged not only because he was born in a blessed period to get mature during the IT boom, but also, having access to an outfitted computer in 1968 when he was 13, during that same period, computers were so expensive that even professors in computer science barely had access to them, and programming was so complex, by the time he showed up at the Silicon Valley, he had more than 10 000 hours of programming in his fingers. Nearly all of us, if given same opportunities with the outliers, we will surely write the same stories, if not better.
The Asians do not have higher IQ than the rest of us, the just have more school time and work harder than the others, this is why the will outperform the rest of the world in maths and other scientific complex subjects. The example of the KIPP schools brought to the USA is a demonstration that working harder and for longer period can yield impressive results.
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- Joshua
- 2022-04-09
Food for starters, essentials for the advanced.
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It's what it is, a book about Ordinary people.
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- Anonymous User
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- Anonymous User
- 2020-12-18
Une recette scientifique du succès
La théorie de l'auteur : le génie ne rencontre pas de succès sans baigner dans un environnement propice à la réussite, est bien démontrée et ce, de manière concrète avec des exemples passionnants. Ce livre permet de comprendre quel environnement est le plus fécond pour optimiser ses chances de réussites. Il offre aussi une lecture réaliste du succès : il ne suffit pas d'être doué, il faut travailler de manière acharnée.
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- India nerjones
- 2020-08-31
fantastic as always
I never want Gladwell's books to end, Outliers was no exception. so fascinating and enjoyable.
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- Dvu
- 2020-06-03
Fascinating book about success
This book gives a very interesting point of views about success by analyzing the stories behind successful people, schools, companies and even societies. It shows that success derives from a combination of many factors including the time, family, race, tradition, etc. Having a high IQ is just not enough to guarantee a successful career. You also have to be born in a right time at a right place in a right family, to be given a chance at a right moment... but maybe the most important message is that all outliers put a lot of time and effort into what they do. There is no exception, no shortcut for success.
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- 2019-09-18
A different view on success.
Read by the author this book unwinds the perceived notion of success into what circumstances allowed them to be successful. It is one one my favorite books
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- Client d'Amazon
- 2018-03-20
clear and easy to listen
clear and easy to listen to while you are walking. enjoy his narration of success. insightful but not pretentious usual American bestseller. I think gladwell has improved a lot from Blink
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- Gaggleframpf
- 2019-09-30
Not Really About Outliers.
This books title leads you to believe that it's going to talk about statistical outliers, but it only nominally does that. Gladwell ignores actual outliers in the teeth of the statistical cases he presents.
One of the earliest examples he uses of "Outliers" are individuals in Canadian hockey teams. Because individuals are filtered into teams by their birthdates, the players with earlier birthdays, in January or February for example, have a year of growth ahead of those in the same league with birthdays in December or November, and therefore they are advantaged over those players every single year through school and on up into professional hockey. These players get more advantages because they continue to outperform the others, which causes them to get more advantages, which causes them to continue to outperform the others, ad infinitum. The result? There are a supermajority of professional Canadian hockey players with early birthdays, and a minority with late ones. So far, so good.
He then goes on to say that those with the early birthdays are the outliers that go on to achieve Hockey success later in life. But these only seem like outliers if you consider them against the majority of humans that aren't professional hockey players and never would be. In reality, statistically, the minority of players with birthdays in October through December that nevertheless reach professional status in Hockey and succeed ARE the real Outliers in his sample! They represent a minority but must be truly outstanding individuals, or at least more outstanding than those who succeeded merely because of their fortunate position and nominally superior maturity. These people would be interesting to learn about. He ignores them in his analysis. It's not even clear whether he knows the problem of their existence presents a problem for his thesis.
I wanted to read a book about statistical outliers -- truly outstanding people and what makes them up. Instead, Gladwell conveniently ignores many truly remarkable individuals in his quest to explain away accomplishments that have been reached through privileged position or status.
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- Leah C. Day
- 2009-09-14
Interesting
This was a pretty interesting book. I don't agree with all of the reasoning, but it's an interesting theory.
The one downside to this book is that if you're looking for motivation, it might work the opposite effect.
This book is about how luck and certain circumstances make you more likely to be successful such as your birthdate, ethnicity, and religion.
If you easily see your circumstances as beyond your control, you may read this book and feel disheartened that you're not lucky or have the right circumstances to be successful.
I believe luck is part of it, but drive and ambition are also important too. You DO have the power to alter your circumstances, even if you've not been given special advantages.
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- GW Support
- 2019-02-15
Don’t dilute your potential with this book
This book’s entire theme is basically that chance determines your successes in life. Hard work, preserverence, determination, commitment and resilience are qualities that this book does not celebrate. Instead, it focuses on culture, upbringing, date of birth and chance. If you are looking for self improvement, I would highly recommend skipping this title and reading books like “The secret of the ages” by Robert Collier, “The power of your subconscious mind” by dr Joseph Murphy, “The richest man in Babylon” by George S. Clason etc.
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- Scott T. Hards
- 2008-12-13
Engaging, but overrated
Outliers has many interesting statistical anecdotes sprinkled throughout, to be sure. My interest was held. But at its core, the book's central theme is simply "successful people are aided in their success by their families, culture, education and other chance factors. They could not have done it alone." This is not exactly a particularly profound revelation. Gladwell repeatedly asserts that most people think Bill Gates-type successes are simply due to that person's raw talent and little else. But is that really the case? Does anybody really think Bill Gates could have achieved what he did had he been born in Botswana, for example? What's more, while crediting these outside factors with making these "outliers" possible, he fails to note that in almost every case, hundreds if not thousands or even more other people had virtually identical birth situations, yet failed to achieve greatness. Gladwell's goal seems to be an attempt to take the shine off of society's great success stories by, in effect, claiming they just got lucky. But I think the formula for producing an outlier is more complex than that. Too often in this book, Gladwell seems to be profoundly stating the obvious.
Gladwell's narration of his own work is generally skillful and an easy listen.
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- KevinH
- 2008-11-21
Captivating (if not an outlier)
Regardless of what you ultimately think of the author's analysis, Gladwell is a masterful storyteller, weaving together interesting anecdotes from such diverse sources as plane crash research to hillbilly feuds to standardized math tests. That Gladwell narrates the audio book himself adds greatly to the listening experience. Critics will complain that his thesis is obvious (that opportunity, cultural inheritence and hard work play key roles in success), or that his examples are selective and ignore in turn outliers that don't illustrate his points -- or, somewhat inconsistently, both. But Gladwell's books are successful because he examines phenomena and topics of importance in an accessible and entertaining way. No one should mistake Malcolm Gladwell for a big thinker like, say, Stephen J. Gould, but Gladwell would be the first one to tell you that he's no outlier. Don't accept everything the author says as truth revealed, but do listen to this book -- it's one of the best non-fiction offerings available through Audible.
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- Sher from Provo
- 2012-04-12
Very Interesting!
Gladwell sets out to explain how the top people in any field were able to get there. The explanations can be very surprising. I was very engaged throughout the whole book. He talked a lot about education, and having been a public school teacher for the last 27 years, I found it absorbing, hopeful, and found myself wishing that I had known some of these things 27 years ago.
Gladwell narrates his own book, which sometimes turns out well, and sometimes not so much. Although obviously not a professional, he has a pleasing way of reading. I wouldn't be choosing a book on account of him reading it however. Still, it was very "listenable" and I enjoyed it very much.
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- Chris
- 2010-08-23
This book should be called 'selective evidence'
Whilst a lot of the ideas in this book are not Gladwell's alone, he takes responsibility for presenting them as if they were fact. Some parts are fascinating - such as the investigation of pilot errors which lead to crashes - but much of it falls woefully short of sound argument. The main points in the book are either obvious or highly questionable: intelligence alone is no trigger for success; luck is big factor in all great achievements; 10,000 hours of practice is required to achieve excellence at anything.
The examples he provides completely ignore the possibility that timing is not just luck, but actually a inherent quality of the thought process that goes into the idea of the business in the first place. Did Bill Gates really become so successful purely because he was: a) in the right place at the right time, and b) put in 10,000 hours of programming in an age when computers were hard to come by? By drawing these conclusions he overlooks the unprovable possibility that Gates may have become successful in another area had he not been born at the right time to start Microsoft.
Were the Beatles successful because of their 10,000 hours of practice in German nightclubs and the like before their 'breakthrough' US number one? Even if you ignore Gladwell's convenient use of their US breakthrough to mark his 10,000 hour cut-off (coming 18 months after their UK success), were they really successful because of the amount of practice they put in? Was it merely musical competence that raised them above their peers? What about inspiration, creative ideas, charisma, chemistry or pure unteachable songwriting genius? And what about the likes of Nick Drake, or Kurt Cobain, or Buddy Holly? They could not have possibly put in the 10,000 hours 'required' practice as prescribed by Gladwell. There must be hundreds or thousands more in the world of music, film, literature, or even business who do not conform to the 10,000 hour rule. Yet they are conveniently overlooked.
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- Robert W
- 2009-05-09
Intriguing but the research is questionable
This book is quite intriguing, but often as I listened I began to wonder about his research methodology. His facts, while compelling seem to be only part of the picture and I began to wonder as to how much picking and choosing of facts was going on to support his points. His determination to support his rather deterministic view is clear throughout the piece.
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- Luiz C Payne
- 2009-03-07
Great audio book
The content was entertaining and fascinating. A lot of "oh wow" moments. What was really good was Malcolm's read. He is an excellent reader--right on point with his inflection and cadence. I thought it had to be a professional reader.
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- Russ
- 2011-08-03
Interesting but stupid
The research and data are interesting but his conclusions are dumb. He comes right out and says that he is trying to debunk the "myth" that hard work and good choices bring success and instead tries to reduce all human success to a sort of lottery game.
If he really wanted to discuss "outliers" then perhaps he should have profiled some Canadian hockey players that were born in December and find out why some people that don't fit the profile still succeed.
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