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The Story of Success
Malcolm Gladwell
Little, Brown & Company, 2008
LEARNING OBJECTIVES - This course was designed to allow the reader to:
• Utilize the many real-life examples in understanding how cultural advantages accumulate over time
• Examine the effects of hidden opportunities, and cultural legacies that enable them to learn, work hard, and make sense of the world in ways that others cannot
• Demonstrate how the unusual opportunity to cultivate a skill enables some to rise above their peers
• Explain the rise in 20th century New York of the unique culture and skills of Eastern European Jewish immigrants
• Describe the elements necessary to produce highly successful people
• Discuss the importance of developmental age in a cohort that predicts athletic success
• Assess the intelligence necessary for technological success
• Apply the “10,000 hour rule” in designing training programs
• Explain the relationship of rice paddies to math skills
• Analyze the ethnic component of success and failure
• Use the importance of luck in working with patients or designing training
• Apply the importance of “meaningful work” in clinical and research applications
Why do some people succeed, living productive lives, while so many more never reach their potential? Outliers makes the democratic assertion that those who succeed "are invariably the beneficiaries of hidden advantages and extraordinary opportunities and cultural legacies that allow them to learn and work hard and make sense of the world in ways others cannot." This book postulates that successful people from Mozart to Bill Gates rise on a tide of advantages, "some deserved, some not, some earned, some just plain lucky.
Malcolm Gladwell has been a staff writer with The New Yorker magazine since 1996. His 1999 profile of Ron Popeil won a National Magazine Award, and in 2005 he was named one of Time Magazine's 100 Most Influential People. He is the author of The Tipping Point: How Little Things Make a Big Difference (2000).
9 CE credits; 320 pages
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