Comments on: Why ‘Outliers’ pisses me off http://www.gamesbrief.com/2009/12/why-outliers-pisses-me-off/ The Business of Games Wed, 08 Feb 2012 22:58:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Nicholas Lovell http://www.gamesbrief.com/2009/12/why-outliers-pisses-me-off/comment-page-1/#comment-4629 Nicholas Lovell Tue, 08 Dec 2009 22:54:02 +0000 http://www.gamesbrief.com/2009/12/why-outliers-pisses-me-off/#comment-4629 The strange thing is that he says both. He spends time saying that "success" is demonstrably due to 10,000 hours hard work, but then spends time saying it's 100% determined by your background.<br>Contradictory, too long, and annoying... The strange thing is that he says both. He spends time saying that “success” is demonstrably due to 10,000 hours hard work, but then spends time saying it's 100% determined by your background.
Contradictory, too long, and annoying…

]]> By: Nicholas Lovell http://www.gamesbrief.com/2009/12/why-outliers-pisses-me-off/comment-page-1/#comment-4630 Nicholas Lovell Tue, 08 Dec 2009 22:52:42 +0000 http://www.gamesbrief.com/2009/12/why-outliers-pisses-me-off/#comment-4630 Here's an interesting take on Gladwellisms in Vanity Fair <br>(thanks to @nachimir and @edstern)<br><br><a href="http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/features/2009/12/gladwell-200912" rel="nofollow">http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/features/2009...</a> Here's an interesting take on Gladwellisms in Vanity Fair
(thanks to @nachimir and @edstern)

http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/features/2009…

]]> By: murun http://www.gamesbrief.com/2009/12/why-outliers-pisses-me-off/comment-page-1/#comment-4618 murun Mon, 07 Dec 2009 17:06:31 +0000 http://www.gamesbrief.com/2009/12/why-outliers-pisses-me-off/#comment-4618 Isn't one of Gladwell's central points in the book that hard work is often *downplayed* in accounts of the success of outliers - hence the large chunks of the book recounting Bill Gates' all night sessions in the computer lab and the Beatles' year in Hamburg? He doesn't say that success is predestined at all, just that blind chance and hard work play as much of a role in success as natural "genius". Isn't one of Gladwell's central points in the book that hard work is often *downplayed* in accounts of the success of outliers – hence the large chunks of the book recounting Bill Gates' all night sessions in the computer lab and the Beatles' year in Hamburg? He doesn't say that success is predestined at all, just that blind chance and hard work play as much of a role in success as natural “genius”.

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