Yes, there is innate talent, but you must work much, much harder than everyone else. I have worked hard to become a teacher.
Category: Outliers Ch. 2 Study Questions
What type of person would be able to fulfill these practice requirements?
Someone who has a solid support system: parents who pay for your bills and take care of you Not your typical person!
Opportunity in 10,000-Hour Rule?
To become a true expert, you must have an extraordinary “STREAM OF OPPORTUNITIES” Joy- He was at University of Michigan and figured out how to get free programming time (” t equals…
“Practice isn’t the thing you do once you’re good. It’s the thing you do that makes you good.”
Even if you are good, you still need to invest the time. And that usually means you can’t work a “normal” 40 hour/ week job etc. YOU must also have EXTRAORDINARY OPPORTUNITIES.
Can your paradigm change?
Yes but you need to be willing to see the world in a different way. IE- hard for people who lived through the depression to see the world as ever truly stable…
Achievement=Talent + Preparation. Explain “naturals” vs. “grinds”
naturals= people who have natural talent grinds= people who worked harder than everyone else Ericsson found that either way, to truly achieve success you must put in the preparation (i.e., 10,000 hour)…
What is the significance of the 10,000- Hour Rule?
Reseachers have found that it seems to take about 10,000 to achiever true mastery.
Bill Joy’s brilliance ?
Talent! He was brilliant (scored perfect on math SAT); he wanted to learn.. “But before he could become an expert, someone had to give him the opportunity to learn HOW to be…
What is paradigm?
Your mindset about how you see the world Paradigm: a framework containing the basic assumptions, ways of thinking, and methodology that are commonly accepted by members of a scientific community.
Gladwell found….
This book is about people who: 1. were given a special opportunity 2. seized the opportunity and worked hard 3. came of age at time that fit the current paradigm 4. their…