outliers the story of success by malcolm gladwell

To avoid sounding disrespectful, the first officer might resort to mitigated speech, i.e. But what if your culture values and respects authority above all else? The first officer might not be as likely to tell the pilot (his superior) that he is making a mistake. Pilots need to communicate and share information in the clearest manner possible. So, Korean Air didn’t have faulty planes or mechanical problems they had a human problem. “The typical accident involves seven consecutive human errors,” Gladwell writes. As someone with flying anxiety, I found it interesting (and somewhat comforting) to learn that aeroplane crashes rarely occur due to engine failure or a rudder suddenly snapping. Gladwell looks at why Korean Air had a track record of plane crashes in the 1980s and 1990s, and what role cultural legacy had to play. Your place of birth (POB) is just as important as the decade in which you are born. It comes from our time: from the particular opportunities that our particular place in history presents us with,” Gladwell writes. “The sense of possibility so necessary for success comes not just from inside us or from our parents. From discovering that most all-star hockey players in Canada are born in January to finding out why successful lawyers in New York in the mid-1970s to the end of the 1980s were almost all Jewish, Gladwell shows how when we are born influences our chances of achieving success. It’s not only our environment and the people we surround ourselves with that matters but also when we are born. But to get there, Wolf had to “appreciate the idea that the values of the world we inhabit and the people we surround ourselves with have a profound effect on who we are,” Gladwell explains. Since then, the Roseto Effect has been widely cited as evidence for the positive effects of social cohesion and support on longevity. What Wolf found was that “…the Rosetans had created a powerful, protective social structure capable of insulating them from the pressures of the modern world”. This while neighbours in Bangor and Nazareth showed a higher incidence of illness and heart attack.

Wolf had studied Italian immigrants living in Roseto, Pennsylvania, from 1935 to 1985 to investigate why rarely anyone from Roseto under the age of sixty-five had heart disease.

Gladwell wants to change our idea of success just as Dr Stewart Wolf had changed our understanding of health. In Outliers, Gladwell examines our understanding of success by looking at a successful person’s circumstances. a statistical observation that is markedly different in value from the others of the sample.something that is situated away from or classed differently from a main or related body.I ordered Outliers and Blink, and since I apparently can’t read his books in chronological order, I started with Outliers. After reading Talking to Strangers, I wanted to read all of Gladwell’s books.

Outliers the story of success by malcolm gladwell