Wednesday, June 17, 2009

OUTLIERS: Persons With Edge

hello frnds...-
Two -Three days ago i have completed the famous book OUTLIERS: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell. Seriously book is Outstanding. While I reading the book I realizes that how much researched the Author has done. Let’s talk something about the content of the book. First understand the meaning of OUTLIER. OUTLIER means the person who do the thing above average that include like the persons with high IQ, Great businessman like Bill gates etc. I found this book very motivated. Because the author has explained the reason for their success. This book says that no one is special; there is always the circumstance that makes them special. Let’s take the example of Bill Gates, the Founder of Microsoft. Everyone knows that he is a Harvard dropout. But very less people about the fact that he got the admission in the school or department that only have the computer. He has the interest in the programming and he is doing programming since the age of 13. So think that only 2-3 school in US has the computer at that time and he got the admission in the one who has computer. The procedure of getting admission was not tough, only thing that matter was the money. Malcolm Gladwell explain the 10000 hr rule, he got the chance of do that 10000 hr rule. In this he has practiced the programming 10000 hr. So it clearly shows that only thing that matters is taking advantage of opportunities and 10000 hr rule or hard work.
Second, the author explains reason behind the success of former business man in US. If you see that mostly former businessman were born in 1852-1855. At that time the economy was booming at very fine rate. Now you see there were no great business men in the period of 1912-1917. That who has born in this period has greatly suffered by the economy slowdown of 1929-1933. They all were young when the slowdown hit them. Due to this they were not fortunate of get the opportunely to their talent. This incident also shows that opportunities plays major role in the development of individual.
Now i am explaining the last case from that book. Some peoples have high Intelligence Quotient or IQ. Other thinks that they are different and are more intelligent. Normal person has the IQ lies in 90-110 and some have the IQ above that. There was a person who has the IQ of 167 which shows that he is very intelligent. Now you see those who have the high IQ are good in figures and numbers. The IQ test is also consist of the figures in which we have to predict the next figure. That’s why they scored well in IQ test. There is a test named as diversion test in which the person has average IQ scored best then the person with high IQ. Diversion test requires the lots of thinking, for example explain the uses of word "bed". In this the normal person scored well. That why if you see the statistics, you will find that most novel prize winner does not have the high IQ.
So finally guys, i got one important lesson from this book that only thing that’s matters are

-hard work or 10000 hr rule
-Taking advantage of opportunities
-IQ don’t matters

So don’t feel bad if u don’t have good IQ...give your best.
Bye

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