Book Summary: Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell

My notes on Outliers: The Story of Success

One of the fastest read books for me. I started reading it on August 19th on a Sunday morning on the day starting a family holidays trip to Mauritius and finished it on the next day reading it, on the plane back home.

My notes:

“Success is the result of what sociologists like to call “accumulative advantage””. You don’t end up being successful just by a strike of luck, raw talent or hard work in isolation, it’s in fact because of a series of accumulative advantages. Most important ones :

• When and where you are born
• What your parents did for a living
• Circumstances of your upbringing

What is real intelligence? It’s IQ test results? No, it’s “practical intelligence”, and what is “practical intelligence”? Knowing what to say to whom, knowing when to say it, and knowing how to say it for maximum effect”.

The following is not an important note from the book, but something I like to remember. I truly believe that some things happen because they should happen > Embrace everything as an opportunity.

“Those three things — autonomy, complexity, and connection between effort and reward — are, most people agree, the three qualities that work has to have if it is satisfying.”

“No one who can rise before dawn three hundred sixty days a year fails to make his family rich”. Chinese proverb

Per-sis-tence. Keep trying, is what sometimes differentiates winners from losers. Losers get tired and frustrated and stop trying. Keep trying, bitch !!

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