About a book by Malcolm Gladwell. Outliers, The Story of Success is about what make people slowly rises from below towards success?

5. • The Matthew Effect
• 10000 Hour Rule
• TheTrouble with Geniuses
• Three Lessons of Joe Flom
OPPORTUNITY
(Extraordinary
circumstances)
• Harlan, Kentucky.
• The EthnicTheory of Plane Crashes
• Rice Paddies and MathTest
• Marita’s Bargain
LEGACY
(Cultural legacies)

6. • The Matthew Effect
• 10000 Hour Rule
• TheTrouble with
Geniuses
• Three Lessons of Joe
Flom
OPPORTUNITY
(Extraordinary
circumstances)

9. Level Amount of hours
Elite performer 10000
Good students 8000
Future music teachers A bit above 4000

10. Case study Their
extraordinary
opportunities
Born in Important events
in the era
Phase during
important events
(Age)
Bill Joy University of
Michigan, 1971
1954
Personal computer
revolution in 1975 Teenage (19-20 yo)
BillGates Lakeside Computer
club, 1968
1955
Steve Jobs MountainView,
~1970s
1955
The Beatles Hamburg, 1960-
1962
1940 (Lennon,
Starr)
1942 (McCartney)
1943 (Harrison)
British Invasion
intoAmerica’s
music scene in
1964.
Teenage (Middle
20s)
John D. Rockefeller
America, 1860s-
1870s
1839 America’s
economic
transformation in
1860s-1870s
Teenage (21-25 yo)Andrew Carnegie 1835
J.P. Morgan 1837

19. A group C group
• Overwhelmingly came from upper
and middle class.
• Half of the fathers have collage
degrees and beyond.
• Have their house full of books.
• Mainly lower class.
• 1/3 of the parents are collage
dropouts before 8th grade.

25. • Harlan, Kentucky.
• The EthnicTheory of
Plane Crashes
• Rice Paddies and Math
Test
• Marita’s Bargain
LEGACY
(Cultural legacies)