Born: September 3, 1963 (age 51), Fareham, United Kingdom

Nationality: Canadian

Malcolm T. Gladwell is a Canadian journalist,

bestselling author, and speaker. He has been a

staff writer for The New Yorker since 1996. He has

written five books,

The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Bi

g Difference

(2000),

Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking

(2005), Outliers: The Story of Success (2008),

What the Dog Saw: And Other Adventures (2009),

a collection of his journalism, and

David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art

of Battling Giants

(2013). All five books were on The New York Times

Best Seller list.

• Why Malcom has wrote this book?Outliers

There is a story that is usually told about extremely successful people, a story that

focuses on intelligence and ambition. Gladwell argues that the true story of success is

very different, and that if we want to understand how some people thrive, we should

spend more time looking around them-at such things as their family, their birthplace,

or even their birth date. And in revealing that hidden logic, Gladwell presents a

fascinating and provocative blueprint for making the most of human potential.

In The Tipping Point Gladwell changed the way we understand the world. In Blink he

changed the way we think about thinking. In OUTLIERS he transforms the way we

understand success

Thrive: Make steady progress; be at the high point in one's career or reach a high point in historical significance or importance.

fascinating: holding the attention.

Provocative: Serving or tending to provoke, excite, or stimulate; stimulating discussion or exciting controversy

THE 6 KEY POINTS IN THE BOOK

Legacy

10,000

hours

Upbringing leads to opportunity

Meaningful work

OpportunityTiming

Opportunity:

One examines opportunity as a function of timing. Canadian hockey

players born closer to the magic birthday of January 1 reap advantages

that compound over time. Likewise, computer programmers Bill Joy and

Bill Gates, both born in the 1950s, have taken advantage of the relative-

age effect to become industry giants in the 1980s. Gladwell not only

debunks the romantic mystique of self-determinism, but also the myth that

genius is born, not made.

The 10,000 Rule: This is probably the premise that Gladwell is most well-known

for, the idea that pretty much everyone who is really good at something has practiced that something for about 10,000 hours.

Net Worth : $ 1.6 BillionCo-founded Sun Microsystems

Net Worth : $ 69.3 BillionCo-Founder of Microsoft

• Timing: Once again looking at birthdates of highly successful tech

entrepreneurs, Gladwell notes a pattern. This time, it

becomes apparent that these guys were born at just the

right time to take advantage of the personal computing

revolution. Their success, to a huge degree, came from

being born at a time when a new technology was

emerging. “Their success was not just of their own making.

It was a product of the world in which they grew up”

• Upbringing leads to opportunity The relationship between success and IQ works only up to a

point. Once someone has reached an IQ of somewhere around 120, having additional IQ points doesn’t seem to translate into any measurable real-world advantage.

The key point, in terms of being successful, is that you don’t have to be the most intelligent, you simply have to have enough intelligence.

The second component of success, once you are over the IQ threshold, is what Gladwell refers to as “practical intelligence” which includes things like “knowing what to say to whom, knowing when to say it, and knowing how to say it for maximum effect”.

• Meaningful work The most important consequence of the miracle of the garment

industry, though, was what happened to the children growing up in those homes where meaningful work was practiced if you work hard enough and assert yourself, and use your mind and imagination, you can shape the world to your desires.

• Legacy Our values are often unconsciously handed down to us from generation

to generation, and as such cast long shadows over our current behavior.

 (e.g.  The Koreans are very deferential to  authority, which led to a series of plane crashes).Almost 4 million people were Died during in these crashes from 1988 till 1998.

• Conclusion

-When opportunity presents itself, seize it.

-There is no short-cut to mastery than ‘putting in the hours’.