Sunday, September 23, 2012

Outliers, Chapter 1.

Hockey Example!

Who likes hockey?

creates atmosphere, tells a story

a meritocracy?

cant buy your way in

challenging notion of individual merit,

"players judged on the basis of their ability, not some arbitrary fact"

Outlier?

What is his argument?

there is something profoundly wrong w the way we make sense of success

we are obsessed with celebrity

people dont just rise from nothing, the circumstances of their birth make a difference

phenomenon of relative age

challenge our notion that the best and brightest rise to the top

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