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17203558 No.17203558 [Reply] [Original]

Most of his books were never meant to be taken as self-help or inspirational guides to success but it kinda feels like whenever he does public talks about them, he tries to turn it into a guide for becoming a billionaire. Especially things like the 10,000 hour rule in Outliers.
I've seen so many people treat his books as success guides now that its starting to tarnish the books themselves.

What are your thoughts on him and his books?

>> No.17203576

he is correct that you gotta spend 10,000 hours to get pretty good at something

>> No.17203599

>gladwell

Awful pseudoscience feel good bullshit, sorry to break it to op.

>> No.17203602

>>17203576
a point i see a lot of people bring up tho is "10,000 hours doing what? whats considered trainging, let alone good training, is so vague that almost doesnt mean anything". I understand what he was going for but I feel like he shouldve specified in that part of his work

>> No.17203608

>>17203558
pseud

>> No.17203654

>>17203599
>>17203608
Besides the 10k hour rule and the 150 ppl capacity rule, most of his stuff is ideas about anthropology he got from looking at some pretty famous case studies. how is it pseudo?

>> No.17203664

>>17203558
Midwit 'intellectual'.

>> No.17203672

>>17203602
i havent read the book so i cant speak to how exactly he made the point but i know for an absolute fact that the people who make it my industry are the ones who dump hours in, and the ones who dont make it are the ones who instead ask questions like "what kind of thing should i do" and saying cope like "dont wanna work too much, gotta practice self care :)"

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>>17203558
a midwit hack who is great at self-promotion and writing what people need to affirm their views.
pic related

>> No.17203784

>>17203672
Yeah, the concept of "Practice Makes Perfect" didn't originate with Malcolm Gladhand.

>> No.17203790

>>17203784
haha you put it in a quote but its your own words and not his lmao retard

>> No.17203800

>>17203602
read about the study of mathematical precocious youth, shit moggs gladwell bullshit, and worst, the study was been in action for 40 fucking years and this dude couldn't even bother to read about, just cherypicks some shit to poitns to his conclusion, and besides that, nobody within academia take this guy serious, he's a hack

>> No.17203813

>>17203800
yeah thats true, it doesnt actually take 10000 hours to develop a skill because some genetic mutant from india figured out an infinite series when he was 11, good point

>> No.17203823

>>17203790
holy shit you're really stupid
they're not my words, halfwit, they go back centuries.
"uses promptos facit" L

>> No.17203824

>>17203558
Pretty sharp for a mulatto but I'm not that fond of him. Apparently he's also really decent at distance running, which is interesting I guess.

>> No.17203828

>>17203813
>One kid
Are you dumb? The study has thousand of kids, and the point is that you never will be more good than a "mutant" even grind 10000 hours, cope more gladwell

>> No.17203834

>>17203823
kek now youre shifting languages and shit to cope with the fact that youre referring to some idiom and not what gladwell said, what a dumbfuck lmfao

>> No.17203841
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17203841

>If you do an activity for 10,000 hours you'll be pretty good at it.

Who would have known?

>> No.17203843

>>17203828
who said one kid? you guys run into a lot of trouble quoting things nobody said lmao dumb bitch

>> No.17203847

>>17203558
I just looked again and the igon value thing wasn't some tweet. It was in his fucking book. That's all you need to know, really.

>> No.17203918

>>17203847
eh its kinda hilarious that dumbass editors didnt catch that typo but i dont think it says much else about him

>> No.17203946

>>17203918
Excuse you, but how do you imagine he did his research about eigenvalues without ever reading the word in print? But the hell with doing research, why didn't it even occur to him to check out the spelling?

>> No.17203954

>>17203918
also
>typo
eignvalue is a typo, igon value is not having a fucking clue

>> No.17203957

it would be funny if he wrote it correctly and the editor thought it was a name

>> No.17203972

I have 10,000 hours in Dota 2 and I'm fucking shit.

>> No.17203989

>>17203558
He’s a good storyteller who writes some accessible books to an audience that would never look at a sociology paper in their lives. Yeah, he’s pretty dumb but the people holding him up to an academic standard are the bigger pseuds

>> No.17203997

>>17203576
kek

>> No.17204007

>>17203654
anthropology is a pseudoscience in a trench coat

>> No.17204009

>>17203834
Outliers = "Practice Makes Perfect'
simple enough for you?

>> No.17204016

>>17204009
ill give you a hint big guy, the thing that goes in the quote should be what the person actually said, dummy

>> No.17205661

>>17203558
>What are your thoughts on him and his books?
Is that you Malcolm? I think you're books are great!

>> No.17207031

>>17203558
He's an Epsteinian creep. He's a pseud. His books are about nothing and they are for people who can't read better books. His hair is cool though.

>> No.17207043
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>>17203558
He's a fucking Canadian.
Any more need be said?

>> No.17207074

>>17203602
It doesn't matter if it was 10,000 hours of the most effective training. If you don't have the genetic constitution you're not gonna make it. Cold hard facts of life's school.

>> No.17207085

Nigger

>> No.17207149

>>17207074
You're wrong too. It's not genetic constitution it's the environment where you were brought up.

>> No.17207170

Oliver sacks is still the undisputed king and champ of pop sci literature

>> No.17207310

>>17207149
>>17207074
You are both wrong, it is both.
Also it is god's will.

>> No.17207319

>>17207170
There's no comparison. Oliver Sacks was a great clinician, academic doctor and author. He was sensitive, intuitive and reflective in a way that let him examine how a disease would be perceived by people with no experience with medicine.

I cannot overstate how much of a nothing Gladwell is by comparison. He sells books, that's for sure.

Anyway yes I agree.

>> No.17207378

>>17203558
Is this guy any good? He has this face that tells me he has nothing to say and uses caffeine assisted contrarianism to snag low hanging fruit.

>> No.17207379

Damn I hate americans