10000 hours

Outliers: The Story of Success is the third non-fiction
book written by Malcolm Gladwell and published by Little, Brown
and Company on November 18, 2008. In Outliers, Gladwell examines
the factors that contribute to high levels of success. To support
his thesis, he examines why the majority of Canadian ice hockey
players are born in the first few months of the calendar year,
how Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates achieved his extreme wealth,
how the Beatles became one of the most successful musical acts in
human history, how Joseph Flom built Skadden, Arps, Slate,
Meagher & Flom into one of the most successful law firms in
the world, how cultural differences play a large part in
perceived intelligence and rational decision making, and how two
people with exceptional intelligence, Christopher Langan and J.
Robert Oppenheimer, end up with such vastly different fortunes.
Throughout the publication, Gladwell repeatedly mentions the
"10,000-Hour Rule", claiming that the key to achieving
world-class expertise in any skill, is, to a large extent, a
matter of practicing the correct way, for a total of around
10,000 hours, though the authors of the original study this was
based on have disputed Gladwell's usage.[1]


The book debuted at number one on the bestseller lists for The
New York Times and The Globe and Mail, holding the position on
the former for eleven consecutive weeks. Generally well received
by critics, Outliers was considered more personal than Gladwell's
other works, and some reviews commented on how much Outliers felt
like an autobiography. Reviews praised the connection that
Gladwell draws between his own background and the rest of the
publication to conclude the book. Reviewers also appreciated the
questions posed by Outliers, finding it important to determine
how much individual potential is ignored by society. However, the
lessons learned were considered anticlimactic and dispiriting.
The writing style, though deemed easy to understand, was
criticized for oversimplifying complex social phenomena.

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