7⭐/10
"Success is a function of persistence and doggedness and the willingness to work hard to make sense of something that most people would have give up on after thirty seconds."
It is about men and women who do things that are out of ordinary.
Research shown the difference between an ameteur and a professional is their attitude.
Professionals increased their practise time steadily every year. They don't work just harder or even much harder than everyone else, they work much much harder.
The book was divided into 2 categories.
Part 1 :- OPPORTUNITY
Success is the result of accumulative advantages. And that little difference leads to an opportunity that makes difference a bit bigger.
In other word, those who are successful, who are most likely to be given the kinds of special opportunities that lead to further success.
(Yep..... couldn't argue with the fact. For example, let say when a student gets good results, he/she will be given lots of opportunities such as government/state/corporate grands, admission to the best school in the country and the said school is provided with the best facilities. So in my opinion for such students, failure is not an option. In fact they must strive for excellence.)
For a person to succeed, there are few factors to be considered :-
1- Where and when we grew up. (Our parents, their level of educations/qualifications, their jobs and our relatives and friends too)
2- The cultural we belong to especially for Asian with a lot of dos and don'ts and to take into considerations the religious background.
3- The legacies passed down by our forebearers.
Achievement = talent + preparation,
thus come the 10,000 hours requirement to achieve level of mastery in everything we aim to be.
Part 2 :- LEGACY
Cultural legacies are powerful forces. They have deep roots and long lives. They persist, generation after generation, virtually intact, even as the economic and social and demographic conditions that spawned them have vanished and they play such role in directing attitudes and behavior that we cannot make sense of our world without them.
As said in Part 1, the same factors do affect the probability of a person's successful (success arises out of the steady accumulations of advantages) :-
1 - When and where you are born.
2 - What your parents did for a living.
3 - What the circumstances of your upbringing.
All make a significant difference in how well you do in the world.
Each of us has his/her own distinct personality. But overlaid on top of that are tendencies and assumptions and reflexes handed down to us by the history of the community we grew up in and those differences are an extraordinarily specific.
Our ability to succeed at what we do is powerfully bound up with where we're from.
Born at the right time with the right parents and the right ethnicity.
Disadvantaged kids simply don't have the same inherent ability to learn as children from more privileged backgrounds.
Outliers are those who have been given opportunities - and who have had the strength and presence of mind to seize them.
When I completed the book, I began to see the pattern here.
I fell into the 'disadvantaged kids' category. I grew up with a sister and both parents working to meet ends. When school holidays, my privileged cousins/friends went overseas for holidays or attended motivational camps to fill up their time. They attended music classes, ballet classes, self-defence classes and even as simple as English short term courses. I envied them.
What a 'disadvantaged kids' like me did? I read books (borrowed from library) and sometimes played with my other cousins and neighbours (after completed house chores) until 7pm (that was my parents cut off time). We lived in an area full of drug addicts and dealers. Hence the cut off time.
I am quiet and curious person. With so much time in hand, I loved to watch my surrounding. I learned a lot by observing and listening. I even watched how the addicts took their doses. I also knew when a begger is not an actual begger but an undercover cop.
During semester break, my privileged friends worked as intern in some companies while I worked in a supermarket. When completed my diploma, I was given an opportunity to do my degree in one of the prestigious university in the country (it's was a dream came true at that time) but I had refused the offer as my parents couldn't afford the fees and I was not able to get any grands or loans. I was devastated.
Until present, while most of my previleged friends/cousins had achieved or almost at their career peak, I'm still here. I had encounters so many series of failures until I lost count and had no tears to shed.
Have I completed my 10,000 hours? I have no idea......
But what I learned by being 'disadvantaged kids' - when life knock you down, don't complain. Just stand up and move forward. One day at a time...
Ciao..
(Yep..... couldn't argue with the fact. For example, let say when a student gets good results, he/she will be given lots of opportunities such as government/state/corporate grands, admission to the best school in the country and the said school is provided with the best facilities. So in my opinion for such students, failure is not an option. In fact they must strive for excellence.)
For a person to succeed, there are few factors to be considered :-
1- Where and when we grew up. (Our parents, their level of educations/qualifications, their jobs and our relatives and friends too)
2- The cultural we belong to especially for Asian with a lot of dos and don'ts and to take into considerations the religious background.
3- The legacies passed down by our forebearers.
Achievement = talent + preparation,
thus come the 10,000 hours requirement to achieve level of mastery in everything we aim to be.
Part 2 :- LEGACY
Cultural legacies are powerful forces. They have deep roots and long lives. They persist, generation after generation, virtually intact, even as the economic and social and demographic conditions that spawned them have vanished and they play such role in directing attitudes and behavior that we cannot make sense of our world without them.
As said in Part 1, the same factors do affect the probability of a person's successful (success arises out of the steady accumulations of advantages) :-
1 - When and where you are born.
2 - What your parents did for a living.
3 - What the circumstances of your upbringing.
All make a significant difference in how well you do in the world.
Each of us has his/her own distinct personality. But overlaid on top of that are tendencies and assumptions and reflexes handed down to us by the history of the community we grew up in and those differences are an extraordinarily specific.
Our ability to succeed at what we do is powerfully bound up with where we're from.
Born at the right time with the right parents and the right ethnicity.
Disadvantaged kids simply don't have the same inherent ability to learn as children from more privileged backgrounds.
Outliers are those who have been given opportunities - and who have had the strength and presence of mind to seize them.
When I completed the book, I began to see the pattern here.
I fell into the 'disadvantaged kids' category. I grew up with a sister and both parents working to meet ends. When school holidays, my privileged cousins/friends went overseas for holidays or attended motivational camps to fill up their time. They attended music classes, ballet classes, self-defence classes and even as simple as English short term courses. I envied them.
What a 'disadvantaged kids' like me did? I read books (borrowed from library) and sometimes played with my other cousins and neighbours (after completed house chores) until 7pm (that was my parents cut off time). We lived in an area full of drug addicts and dealers. Hence the cut off time.
I am quiet and curious person. With so much time in hand, I loved to watch my surrounding. I learned a lot by observing and listening. I even watched how the addicts took their doses. I also knew when a begger is not an actual begger but an undercover cop.
During semester break, my privileged friends worked as intern in some companies while I worked in a supermarket. When completed my diploma, I was given an opportunity to do my degree in one of the prestigious university in the country (it's was a dream came true at that time) but I had refused the offer as my parents couldn't afford the fees and I was not able to get any grands or loans. I was devastated.
Until present, while most of my previleged friends/cousins had achieved or almost at their career peak, I'm still here. I had encounters so many series of failures until I lost count and had no tears to shed.
Have I completed my 10,000 hours? I have no idea......
But what I learned by being 'disadvantaged kids' - when life knock you down, don't complain. Just stand up and move forward. One day at a time...
Ciao..
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