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Atomic Habits
- An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones
- 著者: James Clear
- ナレーター: James Clear
- 再生時間: 5 時間 35 分
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No matter your goals, Atomic Habits offers a proven framework for improving - every day. James Clear, one of the world's leading experts on habit formation, reveals practical strategies that will teach you exactly how to form good habits, break bad ones, and master the tiny behaviors that lead to remarkable results. If you're having trouble changing your habits, the problem isn't you. The problem is your system. Bad habits repeat themselves again and again not because you don't want to change, but because you have the wrong system for change.
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Important thing
- 投稿者: 匿名 日付: 2021/01/30
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Thinking, Fast and Slow
- 著者: Daniel Kahneman
- ナレーター: Patrick Egan
- 再生時間: 20 時間 2 分
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The guru to the gurus at last shares his knowledge with the rest of us. Nobel laureate Daniel Kahneman's seminal studies in behavioral psychology, behavioral economics, and happiness studies have influenced numerous other authors, including Steven Pinker and Malcolm Gladwell. In Thinking, Fast and Slow, Kahneman at last offers his own, first book for the general public. It is a lucid and enlightening summary of his life's work. It will change the way you think about thinking. Two systems drive the way we think and make choices, Kahneman explains....
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Should probably read the book with it.
- 投稿者: Shawn Afshar 日付: 2018/11/18
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Talking to Strangers
- What We Should Know About the People We Don’t Know
- 著者: Malcolm Gladwell
- ナレーター: Malcolm Gladwell
- 再生時間: 8 時間 42 分
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The routine traffic stop that ends in tragedy. The spy who spends years undetected at the highest levels of the Pentagon. The false conviction of Amanda Knox. Why do we so often get other people wrong? Why is it so hard to detect a lie, read a face or judge a stranger's motives? Through a series of encounters and misunderstandings - from history, psychology and infamous legal cases - Malcolm Gladwell takes us on an intellectual adventure into the darker side of human nature, where strangers are never simple and misreading them can have disastrous consequences.
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The Tipping Point
- How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
- 著者: Malcolm Gladwell
- ナレーター: Malcolm Gladwell
- 再生時間: 3 時間 4 分
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In this brilliant and original audiobook, Malcolm Gladwell explains and analyses the 'tipping point', that magic moment when ideas, trends and social behaviour cross a threshold, tip and spread like wildfire. Taking a look behind the surface of many familiar occurrences in our everyday world, Gladwell explains the fascinating social dynamics that cause rapid change.
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David and Goliath
- Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants
- 著者: Malcolm Gladwell
- ナレーター: Malcolm Gladwell
- 再生時間: 7 時間 1 分
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In David and Goliath, Malcolm Gladwell challenges how we think about obstacles and disadvantages, offering a new interpretation of what it means to be discriminated against, or cope with a disability, or lose a parent, or attend a mediocre school, or suffer from any number of other apparent setbacks. Gladwell begins with the real story of what happened between the giant and the shepherd boy those many years ago.
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Blink
- The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
- 著者: Malcolm Gladwell
- ナレーター: Malcolm Gladwell
- 再生時間: 7 時間 44 分
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In his landmark best seller The Tipping Point, Malcolm Gladwell redefined how we understand the world around us. Now, in Blink, he revolutionizes the way we understand the world within. Blink is a book about how we think without thinking, about choices that seem to be made in an instant, in the blink of an eye, that actually aren't as simple as they seem. Why are some people brilliant decision makers, while others are consistently inept?
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Atomic Habits
- An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones
- 著者: James Clear
- ナレーター: James Clear
- 再生時間: 5 時間 35 分
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No matter your goals, Atomic Habits offers a proven framework for improving - every day. James Clear, one of the world's leading experts on habit formation, reveals practical strategies that will teach you exactly how to form good habits, break bad ones, and master the tiny behaviors that lead to remarkable results. If you're having trouble changing your habits, the problem isn't you. The problem is your system. Bad habits repeat themselves again and again not because you don't want to change, but because you have the wrong system for change.
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- 投稿者: 匿名 日付: 2021/01/30
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Thinking, Fast and Slow
- 著者: Daniel Kahneman
- ナレーター: Patrick Egan
- 再生時間: 20 時間 2 分
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The guru to the gurus at last shares his knowledge with the rest of us. Nobel laureate Daniel Kahneman's seminal studies in behavioral psychology, behavioral economics, and happiness studies have influenced numerous other authors, including Steven Pinker and Malcolm Gladwell. In Thinking, Fast and Slow, Kahneman at last offers his own, first book for the general public. It is a lucid and enlightening summary of his life's work. It will change the way you think about thinking. Two systems drive the way we think and make choices, Kahneman explains....
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Should probably read the book with it.
- 投稿者: Shawn Afshar 日付: 2018/11/18
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Talking to Strangers
- What We Should Know About the People We Don’t Know
- 著者: Malcolm Gladwell
- ナレーター: Malcolm Gladwell
- 再生時間: 8 時間 42 分
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The routine traffic stop that ends in tragedy. The spy who spends years undetected at the highest levels of the Pentagon. The false conviction of Amanda Knox. Why do we so often get other people wrong? Why is it so hard to detect a lie, read a face or judge a stranger's motives? Through a series of encounters and misunderstandings - from history, psychology and infamous legal cases - Malcolm Gladwell takes us on an intellectual adventure into the darker side of human nature, where strangers are never simple and misreading them can have disastrous consequences.
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The Tipping Point
- How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
- 著者: Malcolm Gladwell
- ナレーター: Malcolm Gladwell
- 再生時間: 3 時間 4 分
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In this brilliant and original audiobook, Malcolm Gladwell explains and analyses the 'tipping point', that magic moment when ideas, trends and social behaviour cross a threshold, tip and spread like wildfire. Taking a look behind the surface of many familiar occurrences in our everyday world, Gladwell explains the fascinating social dynamics that cause rapid change.
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David and Goliath
- Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants
- 著者: Malcolm Gladwell
- ナレーター: Malcolm Gladwell
- 再生時間: 7 時間 1 分
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In David and Goliath, Malcolm Gladwell challenges how we think about obstacles and disadvantages, offering a new interpretation of what it means to be discriminated against, or cope with a disability, or lose a parent, or attend a mediocre school, or suffer from any number of other apparent setbacks. Gladwell begins with the real story of what happened between the giant and the shepherd boy those many years ago.
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Blink
- The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
- 著者: Malcolm Gladwell
- ナレーター: Malcolm Gladwell
- 再生時間: 7 時間 44 分
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In his landmark best seller The Tipping Point, Malcolm Gladwell redefined how we understand the world around us. Now, in Blink, he revolutionizes the way we understand the world within. Blink is a book about how we think without thinking, about choices that seem to be made in an instant, in the blink of an eye, that actually aren't as simple as they seem. Why are some people brilliant decision makers, while others are consistently inept?
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Factfulness
- Ten Reasons We're Wrong About The World - And Why Things Are Better Than You Think
- 著者: Hans Rosling, Ola Rosling, Anna Rosling Rönnlund
- ナレーター: Simon Slater
- 再生時間: 7 時間 59 分
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Factfulness: The stress-reducing habit of carrying only opinions for which you have strong supporting facts. When asked simple questions about global trends - why the world's population is increasing; how many young women go to school; how many of us live in poverty - we systematically get the answers wrong. So wrong that a chimpanzee choosing answers at random will consistently outguess journalists, Nobel laureates, and investment bankers.
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A compass to cruise the uncertain world
- 投稿者: "1az" 日付: 2020/08/21
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A Promised Land
- 著者: Barack Obama
- ナレーター: Barack Obama
- 再生時間: 29 時間 10 分
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In the stirring, highly anticipated first volume of his presidential memoirs, Barack Obama tells the story of his improbable odyssey from young man searching for his identity to leader of the free world, describing in strikingly personal detail both his political education and the landmark moments of the first term of his historic presidency - a time of dramatic transformation and turmoil.
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Zero to One
- Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future
- 著者: Peter Thiel, Blake Masters
- ナレーター: Blake Masters
- 再生時間: 4 時間 50 分
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The next Bill Gates will not build an operating system. The next Larry Page or Sergey Brin won’t make a search engine. And the next Mark Zuckerberg won't create a social network. If you are copying these guys, you aren't learning from them. It's easier to copy a model than to make something new: doing what we already know how to do takes the world from 1 to n, adding more of something familiar. But every time we create something new, we go from 0 to 1.
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Sapiens
- A Brief History of Humankind
- 著者: Yuval Noah Harari
- ナレーター: Derek Perkins
- 再生時間: 15 時間 17 分
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Most books about the history of humanity pursue either a historical or a biological approach, but Dr. Yuval Noah Harari breaks the mold with this highly original book. From examining the role evolving humans have played in the global ecosystem to charting the rise of empires, Sapiens integrates history and science to reconsider accepted narratives, connect past developments with contemporary concerns, and examine specific events within the context of larger ideas.
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History and future of human
- 投稿者: Amazon カスタマー 日付: 2019/03/29
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Lifespan
- Why We Age - and Why We Don't Have To
- 著者: David A. Sinclair PhD, Matthew D. LaPlante
- ナレーター: David A. Sinclair PhD
- 再生時間: 11 時間 55 分
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From an acclaimed Harvard professor and one of Time’s most influential people, this paradigm-shifting audiobook shows how almost everything we think we know about aging is wrong, offers a front-row seat to the amazing global effort to slow, stop, and reverse aging, and calls listeners to consider a future where aging can be treated.
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Capital in the Twenty-First Century
- 著者: Thomas Piketty, Arthur Goldhammer (translator)
- ナレーター: L. J. Ganser
- 再生時間: 24 時間 58 分
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What are the grand dynamics that drive the accumulation and distribution of capital? Questions about the long-term evolution of inequality, the concentration of wealth, and the prospects for economic growth lie at the heart of political economy. But satisfactory answers have been hard to find for lack of adequate data and clear guiding theories.
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The Power of Habit
- Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business
- 著者: Charles Duhigg
- ナレーター: Mike Chamberlain
- 再生時間: 10 時間 53 分
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In The Power of Habit, award-winning business reporter Charles Duhigg takes us to the thrilling edge of scientific discoveries that explain why habits exist and how they can be changed. Distilling vast amounts of information into engrossing narratives that take us from the boardrooms of Procter & Gamble to the sidelines of the NFL to the front lines of the civil rights movement, Duhigg presents a whole new understanding of human nature and its potential.
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End Part!
- 投稿者: Amazon Customer 日付: 2019/09/08
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Why We Sleep
- Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams
- 著者: Matthew Walker
- ナレーター: Steve West
- 再生時間: 13 時間 52 分
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Sleep is one of the most important but least understood aspects of our life, wellness, and longevity. Until very recently, science had no answer to the question of why we sleep, or what good it served, or why we suffer such devastating health consequences when we don't sleep. Compared to the other basic drives in life - eating, drinking, and reproducing - the purpose of sleep remained elusive.
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Great book!
- 投稿者: Guillermo (Read to Learn) 日付: 2018/12/01
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21 Lessons for the 21st Century
- 著者: Yuval Noah Harari
- ナレーター: Derek Perkins
- 再生時間: 11 時間 41 分
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Sapiens showed us where we came from. Homo Deus looked to the future. 21 Lessons for the 21st Century explores the present. How can we protect ourselves from nuclear war, ecological cataclysms and technological disruptions? What can we do about the epidemic of fake news or the threat of terrorism? What should we teach our children? Yuval Noah Harari takes us on a thrilling journey through today’s most urgent issues.
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Very intellectual
- 投稿者: Amazon カスタマー 日付: 2020/01/19
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How to Win Friends & Influence People
- 著者: Dale Carnegie
- ナレーター: Andrew MacMillan
- 再生時間: 7 時間 15 分
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You can go after the job you want...and get it! You can take the job you have...and improve it! You can take any situation you're in...and make it work for you!
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Mind blown
- 投稿者: Sagar Bhandari 日付: 2019/04/06
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Grit
- The Power of Passion and Perseverance
- 著者: Angela Duckworth
- ナレーター: Angela Duckworth
- 再生時間: 9 時間 22 分
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In this must-listen book for anyone striving to succeed, pioneering psychologist Angela Duckworth shows parents, educators, students, and businesspeople - both seasoned and new - that the secret to outstanding achievement is not talent but a focused persistence called "grit". Why do some people succeed and others fail? Sharing new insights from her landmark research on grit, MacArthur "genius" Angela Duckworth explains why talent is hardly a guarantor of success.
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engaging, insightful, motivational
- 投稿者: George Mora 日付: 2019/04/16
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Becoming
- 著者: Michelle Obama
- ナレーター: Michelle Obama
- 再生時間: 19 時間 3 分
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In her memoir, a work of deep reflection and mesmerizing storytelling, Michelle Obama invites listeners into her world, chronicling the experiences that have shaped her - from her childhood on the South Side of Chicago to her years as an executive balancing the demands of motherhood and work to her time spent at the world's most famous address. With unerring honesty and lively wit, she describes her triumphs and her disappointments, both public and private, telling her full story as she has lived it - in her own words and on her own terms.
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語り口からにじみ出る、手本とすべき人柄。
- 投稿者: Kindleのお客様 日付: 2019/02/07
あらすじ・解説
In this stunning new book, Malcolm Gladwell takes us on an intellectual journey through the world of "outliers" - the best and the brightest, the most famous and the most successful. He asks the question: what makes high achievers different? His answer is that we pay too much attention to what successful people are like and too little attention to where they are from: that is, their culture, their family, their generation, and the idiosyncratic experiences of their upbringing. Along the way he explains the secrets of software billionaires, what it takes to be a great soccer player, why Asians are good at math, and what made the Beatles the greatest rock band.
Brilliant and entertaining, Outliers is a landmark work that will simultaneously delight and illuminate.
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- Leah C. Day
- 2009/09/14
Interesting
This was a pretty interesting book. I don't agree with all of the reasoning, but it's an interesting theory.
The one downside to this book is that if you're looking for motivation, it might work the opposite effect.
This book is about how luck and certain circumstances make you more likely to be successful such as your birthdate, ethnicity, and religion.
If you easily see your circumstances as beyond your control, you may read this book and feel disheartened that you're not lucky or have the right circumstances to be successful.
I believe luck is part of it, but drive and ambition are also important too. You DO have the power to alter your circumstances, even if you've not been given special advantages.
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- Gaggleframpf
- 2019/09/30
Not Really About Outliers.
This books title leads you to believe that it's going to talk about statistical outliers, but it only nominally does that. Gladwell ignores actual outliers in the teeth of the statistical cases he presents.
One of the earliest examples he uses of "Outliers" are individuals in Canadian hockey teams. Because individuals are filtered into teams by their birthdates, the players with earlier birthdays, in January or February for example, have a year of growth ahead of those in the same league with birthdays in December or November, and therefore they are advantaged over those players every single year through school and on up into professional hockey. These players get more advantages because they continue to outperform the others, which causes them to get more advantages, which causes them to continue to outperform the others, ad infinitum. The result? There are a supermajority of professional Canadian hockey players with early birthdays, and a minority with late ones. So far, so good.
He then goes on to say that those with the early birthdays are the outliers that go on to achieve Hockey success later in life. But these only seem like outliers if you consider them against the majority of humans that aren't professional hockey players and never would be. In reality, statistically, the minority of players with birthdays in October through December that nevertheless reach professional status in Hockey and succeed ARE the real Outliers in his sample! They represent a minority but must be truly outstanding individuals, or at least more outstanding than those who succeeded merely because of their fortunate position and nominally superior maturity. These people would be interesting to learn about. He ignores them in his analysis. It's not even clear whether he knows the problem of their existence presents a problem for his thesis.
I wanted to read a book about statistical outliers -- truly outstanding people and what makes them up. Instead, Gladwell conveniently ignores many truly remarkable individuals in his quest to explain away accomplishments that have been reached through privileged position or status.
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- GW Support
- 2019/02/15
Don’t dilute your potential with this book
This book’s entire theme is basically that chance determines your successes in life. Hard work, preserverence, determination, commitment and resilience are qualities that this book does not celebrate. Instead, it focuses on culture, upbringing, date of birth and chance. If you are looking for self improvement, I would highly recommend skipping this title and reading books like “The secret of the ages” by Robert Collier, “The power of your subconscious mind” by dr Joseph Murphy, “The richest man in Babylon” by George S. Clason etc.
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- Scott T. Hards
- 2008/12/13
Engaging, but overrated
Outliers has many interesting statistical anecdotes sprinkled throughout, to be sure. My interest was held. But at its core, the book's central theme is simply "successful people are aided in their success by their families, culture, education and other chance factors. They could not have done it alone." This is not exactly a particularly profound revelation. Gladwell repeatedly asserts that most people think Bill Gates-type successes are simply due to that person's raw talent and little else. But is that really the case? Does anybody really think Bill Gates could have achieved what he did had he been born in Botswana, for example? What's more, while crediting these outside factors with making these "outliers" possible, he fails to note that in almost every case, hundreds if not thousands or even more other people had virtually identical birth situations, yet failed to achieve greatness. Gladwell's goal seems to be an attempt to take the shine off of society's great success stories by, in effect, claiming they just got lucky. But I think the formula for producing an outlier is more complex than that. Too often in this book, Gladwell seems to be profoundly stating the obvious.
Gladwell's narration of his own work is generally skillful and an easy listen.
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- KevinH
- 2008/11/21
Captivating (if not an outlier)
Regardless of what you ultimately think of the author's analysis, Gladwell is a masterful storyteller, weaving together interesting anecdotes from such diverse sources as plane crash research to hillbilly feuds to standardized math tests. That Gladwell narrates the audio book himself adds greatly to the listening experience. Critics will complain that his thesis is obvious (that opportunity, cultural inheritence and hard work play key roles in success), or that his examples are selective and ignore in turn outliers that don't illustrate his points -- or, somewhat inconsistently, both. But Gladwell's books are successful because he examines phenomena and topics of importance in an accessible and entertaining way. No one should mistake Malcolm Gladwell for a big thinker like, say, Stephen J. Gould, but Gladwell would be the first one to tell you that he's no outlier. Don't accept everything the author says as truth revealed, but do listen to this book -- it's one of the best non-fiction offerings available through Audible.
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- Sher from Provo
- 2012/04/12
Very Interesting!
Gladwell sets out to explain how the top people in any field were able to get there. The explanations can be very surprising. I was very engaged throughout the whole book. He talked a lot about education, and having been a public school teacher for the last 27 years, I found it absorbing, hopeful, and found myself wishing that I had known some of these things 27 years ago.
Gladwell narrates his own book, which sometimes turns out well, and sometimes not so much. Although obviously not a professional, he has a pleasing way of reading. I wouldn't be choosing a book on account of him reading it however. Still, it was very "listenable" and I enjoyed it very much.
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- Robert W
- 2009/05/09
Intriguing but the research is questionable
This book is quite intriguing, but often as I listened I began to wonder about his research methodology. His facts, while compelling seem to be only part of the picture and I began to wonder as to how much picking and choosing of facts was going on to support his points. His determination to support his rather deterministic view is clear throughout the piece.
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- Chris
- 2010/08/23
This book should be called 'selective evidence'
Whilst a lot of the ideas in this book are not Gladwell's alone, he takes responsibility for presenting them as if they were fact. Some parts are fascinating - such as the investigation of pilot errors which lead to crashes - but much of it falls woefully short of sound argument. The main points in the book are either obvious or highly questionable: intelligence alone is no trigger for success; luck is big factor in all great achievements; 10,000 hours of practice is required to achieve excellence at anything.
The examples he provides completely ignore the possibility that timing is not just luck, but actually a inherent quality of the thought process that goes into the idea of the business in the first place. Did Bill Gates really become so successful purely because he was: a) in the right place at the right time, and b) put in 10,000 hours of programming in an age when computers were hard to come by? By drawing these conclusions he overlooks the unprovable possibility that Gates may have become successful in another area had he not been born at the right time to start Microsoft.
Were the Beatles successful because of their 10,000 hours of practice in German nightclubs and the like before their 'breakthrough' US number one? Even if you ignore Gladwell's convenient use of their US breakthrough to mark his 10,000 hour cut-off (coming 18 months after their UK success), were they really successful because of the amount of practice they put in? Was it merely musical competence that raised them above their peers? What about inspiration, creative ideas, charisma, chemistry or pure unteachable songwriting genius? And what about the likes of Nick Drake, or Kurt Cobain, or Buddy Holly? They could not have possibly put in the 10,000 hours 'required' practice as prescribed by Gladwell. There must be hundreds or thousands more in the world of music, film, literature, or even business who do not conform to the 10,000 hour rule. Yet they are conveniently overlooked.
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- Luiz C Payne
- 2009/03/07
Great audio book
The content was entertaining and fascinating. A lot of "oh wow" moments. What was really good was Malcolm's read. He is an excellent reader--right on point with his inflection and cadence. I thought it had to be a professional reader.
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- Andrew
- 2011/11/28
Not as revelatory as you'd think
It takes lots of actual practice to master something. It also takes opportunities that are not in our control. So basically, Gladwell is trying to prove Calvinism (hard work + predestination). Pinpointing the web of circumstances that leads to success is something that we obsess over as a culture and Gladwell provides a very interesting analysis of how this works. But I do not feel like I heard any revelations here that I did not learn from my father when he encouraged me to get internships as an undergraduate.
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- Mark
- 2012/12/23
I never thought about it that way...
As a teacher I have spent years praising kids for being smart, then, however,they rely on that to wing the exams. now I praise them for the amount of hard work they do to achieve their goals and they do better.
Inspiring book, well read, and it has application outside its covers.
Mark from Enfield
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- Dawn
- 2010/05/20
Riveting - enjoyed it much more than the paperback
Malcolm Gladwell is a terrific writer; he's also an experienced and effective presenter. So when he's reading his own material it's a compelling package and I was totally hooked.
He's dug up some fascinating statistics to back up his overall hypothesis: when someone is exceptional at something it's not just a case of luck or hard work.
IT millionaires all born in the same 3-year period; high performers who all put in more than 10,000 hours of practice; entrepreneurs whose experience of being immigrants influenced who they knew and what they did - and many more fascinating examples.
I'll definitely be listening to this again.
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- Anthony
- 2017/06/26
Very engaging
Its one of those books you can't stop listening to. I do feel however there isn't many ways to apply this to your life.
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- Judy Corstjens
- 2012/08/04
Just so stories
Mr Gladwell has a nice voice and is a natural storyteller, but unfortunately he cannot think straight for an extended period (such as a book). He contradicts himself: at one point, to succeed you need the 'right', well connected, parents (high IQ elementary kids) at another point the key to success (for New York lawyers in the 1970s) is to be born on the wrong side of the tracks (jewish immigrant). He has extraordinarily low standards of 'proof': having demonstrated that certain successes (Steve Jobs, Bill Gates etc.) got lucky breaks, he then breezily states, 'Now we have shown that circumstances are actually more important than raw talent'. I find this very irritating. The main thesis seems to be 'you need luck as well as talent'. Duh?? Is that a thesis or a statement of the bloody obvious? The three stars is because, despite all this, Outliers is quite listenable. It is so low powered and well read that you never need to hit the repeat button, which is handy if your hands are muddy (as mine usually are when I'm audioing).
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- Derek
- 2017/07/21
Amusing stories of success from a different view
This book is really well read by the author. The viewpoint he provides on how some people have got where they are challenges the idea that we are products of ourselves. He sets out to prove this point with a series of cases, each of which is entertaining to consider, but is by no means an exhaustive list. As such his argument is interesting and worth considering, but not rigorously examined.
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- Walter Rothon
- 2013/04/07
Interesting, engaging and very informative
If you've read Freakonomics, then you'll love this. Malcolm Gladwell delves deep into the reasons and circumstances around what makes some people more successful than others. The people and groups he highlights will surprise you - but more so you'll be amazed at what things had to align for them to reach that point of success. Easy to listen to, simply stated but very engaging it was hard to pause while listening on my commute to work.
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- Alex King
- 2017/08/05
Absolutely mindblowing!
A truly thought provoking book. I Have to listen to it again! Highly recommended book
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- Amazon Customer
- 2017/07/31
Brilliant
I enjoyed this book I could not put it down , I have learned some fascinating things
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- nicholas legge
- 2017/04/22
Full of repetitive facts and stories
I cannot stop talking about this book. It is so interesting it just makes you pass on the knowledge but with vigour.
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- Kindle Customer
- 2020/04/21
Does hard work + circumstance shape the outlier?
MG leaves no stone unturned to debunk the myth of the self made man. Excellent.
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- laura
- 2019/04/26
Where are the female outliers?
The absence of women in this book provides evidence for an unspoken point that women have not been afforded the circumstances to prevail as outliers. Rather than leave this unaddressed and simply provide a playbook of male leaders, surely a chapter noting why women are absent from the book, is warranted?
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- Igor
- 2017/05/11
great book highly recommended !!!!
Very insightful and shows new ways to look at factors that underpin success... probably good things to consider by parents when signing up kids in extra curricular activities
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- Kevin
- 2017/04/17
A fascinating analysis of success
Another great MG read / listen. Probably my favourite so far and a much more in depth analysis in comparison to his others. You're bound to learn something about why some have succeeded and others have not. Fascinating and engaging and well worth the listen.
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- Callum
- 2020/05/23
Fascinating & intellectual
Malcolm has created a fantastic and interesting book. It is well written, full of excellent examples and shines light on success in a way I would have never imagined!
Malcolm is also an excellent narrator.
I highly recommend this book.
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- Brendan
- 2017/02/19
Such an entertaining book
I really enjoyed this even though it was short. I loved the aviation chapter and the last chapter at the very with a personal touch was great. I listened to every word and the narration was on point. I'd listen to this again for sure.
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- Jennifer
- 2020/09/27
Outlier opportunities
Interesting and thought provoking. Though considerably out of date, Gladwell's premise still rings true. I think to the influence of familiar attitudes and advice, local and world events and timing. Timing is close to being everything. Covid 19 disruption in 2020 will well be one of these times for the stars to align for the next wave of outliers.
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- Melissa
- 2017/02/09
Perspective
I've always been a believer that you make your own luck. With hard work and with practice patience and persistence. This book has made me realise there are so many other factors to opportunities that arise in ones life. I definitely have a new perspective. Great book!
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- Kieran.S
- 2016/11/22
Great
I've always struggled to finish books as I get bored easily. I loved it and found it easy to get through as well as being very insightful and interesting.
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- Anonymous User
- 2021/03/24
Insightful and informative book
This is a thought provoking and insightful book that has some very actionable information. The irony of personal success factors being contradicted with the environmental factors is such a novel idea which got me reflecting on my own life. Highly recommended reading!
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- Sarah
- 2021/03/20
The story of successful men
There is notable absence of celebrating or researching successful women. How sad. This book ended up being quite painful to get through in the end. The concept began interesting enough, and then just fell flat every time there was a failure to mention another obvious contributing factor to success was gender.
I nearly laughed (or maybe rolled my eyes) in the chapter about garment making and the successful men that had their wives do all the work actually making the garments. Reading between the lines, I'm more than positive the thrifty, smart wife would have said 'I'm not paying $x for that, I'll make it on my own", but yes, give the credit to the patriarchal figure, I'm sure it was the only option back then (digital eyeroll).
Painful gender filtered writing, would not recommend.