“We have, as human beings, a storytelling problem. We're a bit too quick to come up with explanations for things we don't really have an explanation for.” HumansProblemSuccessBitsHuman BeingsCome UpStorytellingExplanationBlinkTipping PointOutliers Author:Malcolm Gladwell
“The key to good decision making is not knowledge. It is understanding. We are swimming in the former. We are desperately lacking in the latter.” SuccessUnderstandingDecisionKeysFormerLatterDecision MakingSwimmingLackingBlinkGood DecisionOutliers Author:Malcolm Gladwell
“Who we are cannot be separated from where we're from.” SuccessWho We AreOutliers Author:Malcolm Gladwell
“I want to convince you that these kinds of personal explanations of success don't work. People don't rise from nothing....It is only by asking where they are from that we can unravel the logic behind who succeeds and who doesn't.” PeopleWantKindSuccessBehindsSucceedLogicAskingExplanationConvinceOutliers Author:Malcolm Gladwell
“Once a musician has enough ability to get into a top music school, the thing that distinguishes one performer from another is how hard he or she works. That's it. And what's more, the people at the very top don't work just harder or even much harder than everyone else. They work much, much harder.” PeopleHardEnoughSchoolSuccessAbilityMusicMusicianHarderPerformersOutliers Author:Malcolm Gladwell
“In fact, researchers have settled on what they believe is the magic number for true expertise: ten thousand hours.” BelieveFactsSuccessHoursNumbersMagicThousandTenExpertiseResearchersOutliers Author:Malcolm Gladwell
“Those three things - autonomy, complexity, and a connection between effort and reward - are, most people will agree, the three qualities that work has to have if it is to be satisfying.” PeopleIfsMotivationalSuccessThreeEffortQualityConnectionsAgreeRewardsComplexitySatisfyingAutonomyThree ThingsOutliers Author:Malcolm Gladwell
“The lesson here is very simple. But it is striking how often it is overlooked. We are so caught in the myths of the best and the brightest and the self-made that we think outliers spring naturally from the earth. We look at the young Bill Gates and marvel that our world allowed that thirteen-year-old to become a fabulously successful entrepreneur. But that's the wrong lesson. Our world only allowed one thirteen-year-old unlimited access to a time sharing terminal in 1968. If a million teenagers had been given the same opportunity, how many more Microsofts would we have today?” IfsThinkingWorldYearsLooksMadeSelfTodayEarthSuccessYoungOpportunityGivenSimpleMillionsSuccessfulLessonsSpringBillsEntrepreneurCaughtMythAccessTeenagerGatesOur WorldUnlimitedMicrosoftThirteenOverlookedSelf MadeSuccessful EntrepreneursTerminalOutliersThirteen Year Olds Author:Malcolm Gladwell
“Hard work is a prison sentence only if it does not have meaning.” IfsDoeHardSuccessPassionHard WorkPrisonSentencesOutliers Author:Malcolm Gladwell
“It's not how much money we make that ultimately makes us happy between nine and five. It's whether or not our work fulfills us. Being a teacher is meaningful.” SuccessFiveTeacherMeaningfulNineBeing A TeacherOutliers Author:Malcolm Gladwell
“To be someone's best friend requires a minimum investment of time. More than that, though, it takes emotional energy. Caring about someone deeply is exhausting.” SuccessEnergyEmotionalInvestmentCaringMinimumExhaustingTippingTipping PointOutliersEmotional EnergyCaring About Someone Author:Malcolm Gladwell
“No one who can rise before dawn three hundred sixty days a year fails to make his family rich.” YearsSuccessThreeBusinessRichFailingHundredDawnSixtyOutliers Author:Malcolm Gladwell