Outliers_Summary

an Analogy

the tallest oak in the forest is the tallest

not just because it grew from the hardiest acorn;

it is the tallest also because no other trees blocked its sunlight, the soil around it was deep and rich, no rabbit chewed through its bark as a sapling, and no lumberjack cut it down before it matured.

We all know that successful people come from hardy seeds. But do we know enough about the sunlight that warmed them, the soil in which they put down the roots, and the rabbits and lumberjacks they were lucky enough to avoid?

the case of the Rosetans

- How living in an isolated town in eastern Pennsylvania can reduce the cases of heart disease drastically as compared to other places in America

the Matthew Effect of the

professional Canadian hockey league

- How a professional league can give preference to those the are birth in the first few months of the year (Jan - May) - thus causing a disadvantage for aspiring hockey kids born near the year-end (Sept - Dec). See: Relative Age Effect (RAE)

the case of the 10,000 hours

- How Bill Gates (Microsoft), Bill Joy (Unix) & the Beatles practiced/honed their crafts to become the most famous people in their fields.

the case of the Termites

in the Terman's study

- How the geniuses of the Terman's study resulted into a conclusion they did not expect.

the lessons of Joe Flom

- How a New York Lawyer (Joe Flom), became the founder of the Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP - one of the most sought after corporate take-over law firm inspite of him being rejected in all job interviews when he first started his career 10-years before.

the Theory of the

Korean Airline accidents

- How the ethnic background of airplane captains (pilots) "can be the cause" of Korean Air Lines flight accidents in the 1990's.

the Rice Paddies & Math tests

-How the story of the Rice Paddies teaches us - "no one who rise early, before dawn, three hundred sixty days a year, fails to make his family rich"

- How Asians' built-in advantage of their "number naming system" makes them excel in Mathematics.

Marita's Bargain

(KIPP Program Academy School)

- How a 12-year old student would say ...

"I leave for school at 5:45AM" ,

"I leave school at 5PM" ,

"I go to sleep at ,like, 12-o'clock"

& still insist ...

"Everyone says that KIPP is hard, but once you get a hang of it, it's not really that hard." - that's "Marita's Bargain"

... LEARN what kind of "BARGAIN" did this 12-year old kid (from the Bronx, NY) chose for herself.

the KIPP schools

Learn ...

- How most KIPP program students call math their favorite subject by the end of fifth grade.

- How 90% of KIPP students get scholarships to private/parochial high schools; how 80% will go to college, in many cases being the first in their family to do so.