{"id":2813,"date":"2011-06-11T10:30:14","date_gmt":"2011-06-11T02:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/blog\/?p=2813"},"modified":"2015-02-18T09:42:10","modified_gmt":"2015-02-18T09:42:10","slug":"outliers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/2011\/06\/11\/outliers\/","title":{"rendered":"Outliers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Malcolm Gladwell&#8217;s Outliers is essentially a description of the <strong>ecology <\/strong>behind success. Gladwell points out, rightly, that it&#8217;s impossible to explain or understand the height of an exceptionally tall tree without also studying the forest which it grows in.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What I came to realize in writing Outliers, though, is that we&#8217;ve been far too focused on the individual\u2014on describing the characteristics and habits and personality traits of those who get furthest ahead in the world. And that&#8217;s the problem, because in order to understand the outlier I think you have to look around them\u2014at their culture and community and family and generation. We&#8217;ve been looking at tall trees, and I think we should have been looking at the forest.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The hope with Tipping Point was it would help the reader understand that real change was possible. With Blink, I wanted to get people to take the enormous power of their intuition seriously. My wish with Outliers is that it makes us understand <strong>how much of a group project success is.<\/strong> When outliers become outliers it is not just because of their own efforts. It&#8217;s because of the contributions of lots of different people and lots of different circumstances\u2014 and that means that <strong>we, as a society, have more control about who succeeds\u2014and how many of us succeed\u2014than we think.<\/strong> That&#8217;s an amazingly hopeful and uplifting idea.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Malcolm Gladwell&#8217;s Outliers is essentially a description of the ecology behind success. Gladwell points out, rightly, that it&#8217;s impossible to explain or understand the height of an exceptionally tall tree without also studying the forest which it grows in. &#8220;What I came to realize in writing Outliers, though, is that&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":[86],"class_list":["post-2813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-books"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s5gxNz-outliers","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2813","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=2813"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2813\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9890,"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2813\/revisions\/9890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}