My new entries is about the summarization on the book review held at Dewan Anggerik. It is presented by Miss Siti Hajar Mohd Hussain. She also provide us with a very simple and intersting slide. Now, i am currently about to read this book.
Authors background
As i know, the author is Malcom Gladwell. The title of this book was the story of success. He was raised in Canada. He was from a very poor family. He went to Toronto University and was graduated in history. He also wrote few books. The achievement that i remember was he had won National Magazine Award in 1999.
Based on my understanding on the book review. Miss Siti had conclude the book so far that outliers is defined by people who do things out of ordinary. Outliers is divided into two categories. It is opportunity and legacy. The opportunity talks about Matheww effect, 10 000 hours rule, geniuses trouble,and three lessons of Joe Flom. While the legacy talks about Harlan Kentucky, the ethnic theory of plane crashes, rice paddies and mathematics test, Marita`s bargains and Jamaican story.
Now let me explain a bit about the outliers. What is Matthew effect? It is a phenomenon which the richer become rich, the poor get poorer. Here, it says that to success two factors needed is time and age. It is the most important key to success. From the point of view of Miss Siti, she said that if there are no cut off time, then more talent will be discovered.
Next, i am going to explain my understanding about the 10 000 hours rule. This rule state that, to become an expert, we need the 10 000hours rule. Similarly means by we need practise to become expert. This book use some example of person who used this 10000 hours rule. One of them is Bill Gates. The other person is The Beatles. The Beatles had performed more than 1200times to make them to be an expert. here, this rule conclude that we couldn`t be success without early encouragement by parents and without any extraordinary opportunity from earlier age.
Okay geniuses trouble here talked about the geniuses itself. Okay the first genius was Chris Langan. His IG is 195. He beats our Albert Einstein so far.He was a nomad and came from poor family background. the unique about him is he began to talk at 6month. He also can skim textbook within 2 to 3 minutes. He reads physics theory and became Principia of Mathematics at 16 years old. He also got 2 scholarship. He made wrong decision by choosing to study in Reed College instead of University of Chicago. But then, he lost his scholar because his mom forgot to fill up the form. He decided to works. He works for one and a half years. He also wrote wrote a book, but it is unpublished because he does not have any degree so far. The next genius is Robert Oppenheimer. he is the former of nuclear bomb. He studied at Cambridge and Oxford. He had practical intelligence so far. Conclusion about this both genius is they were full of a problem person. It means by, success does not really came from good background.
Joe Flom here came from New York and studied at Townsend Harns public high school in the great depression area in 1973. He had newly tried to setup a law firm. But, several law practitioner was turned down by previous employer. Here, there are three lessons from Joe Flom. Lesson 1 talk about Law of uncomfortable. While lesson 2 talks about Demographic luck. The third lessons currently talk about Garment industry and meaningful works. So, i cannot conclude anything because i have not read the books yet.
Next categories is about Legacy. First, it talked about Harlan Kentucky. It is a story about Howards and Turner. They involve in a cows shooting and poker cheating. They are an Appalachian patterns. The culture legacies here talk about the powerful force, deeproots and longlife.
Next legacy is talking about the ethnic theory of plane crashes. Malcom proved that the plane crashes is due to the misscommunication and language issues. Misscommunication happens due to the pilots in the cockpits and there was misscommunications between airtraffic controller and pilots too. So cooperation is the best way to solve this problem.
The rice paddies and Mathematics test issues happens in Chicago. I am so sorry because i cannot elaborate more on this due to lack of focus on this topic. The next issue was about Marita Bargains. It state that Knowledge is Power Program (KIPP). Cultural legacy is important to success. The last topic, Miss Siti talked about Jamaican Story. It talked about the Daisy Nation then.
From my own opinion, i think this book encourage us to become better and provide key to improve ourself to become success. I think i will read this book and it worthy to look out for this book. Thank you and that is all i can summarize for that book review.
