{"id":14954,"date":"2013-03-21T20:53:16","date_gmt":"2013-03-21T20:53:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/blog\/?p=5965"},"modified":"2013-03-21T20:53:16","modified_gmt":"2013-03-21T20:53:16","slug":"outliers-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/2013\/03\/21\/outliers-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Outliers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Outliers was the first Malcolm Gladwell book that I read and enjoyed from cover to cover. I believe the central idea of the book is: <strong>You can&#8217;t understand a tree without understanding the forest it&#8217;s in.<\/strong> You can&#8217;t make sense of a person without studying her peers, her community, the age she was born and raised in. (See: <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Socialization\">Socialization<\/a>) The cool thing is, a tree can&#8217;t uproot itself and go to another forest- but a man can get up and walk, and he can modify his peer group. (To a certain degree, at least.)<\/p>\n<p>I wasn&#8217;t <em>entirely<\/em> ignorant of this before, but this gave me a clearer picture. It make me aware of a specific point-of-view I could use, a way of seeing the world.<\/p>\n<p>We can&#8217;t evaluate ourselves without contemplating everything around us. Our successes and failures are not entirely our own. This means that we can&#8217;t entirely take credit for anything we accomplish, and we can&#8217;t entirely blame others when they fail or screw up. (Inversely, we can&#8217;t entirely credit others or blame ourselves, either, but we&#8217;re naturally biased not to do that: see Self-serving bias.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Outliers was the first Malcolm Gladwell book that I read and enjoyed from cover to cover. I believe the central idea of the book is: You can&#8217;t understand a tree without understanding the forest it&#8217;s in. You can&#8217;t make sense of a person without studying her peers, her community, the&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[823],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5gxNz-3Tc","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14954\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}