10 Best Ideas | Outliers | Malcolm Gladwell | Book Summary

what makes someone successful it's not intelligence or ambition but something completely different that we're going to dive into on this week's book review outliers the story of success hey what's up it's Clark back again from Clark danger calm super sighted excited for this week's book review on outliers one of the most talked about books in the business self-help personal development world whatever category you want to go in it's number one top twenty up there by Malcolm Gladwell came out in 2008 and the reason I really resonated with this book is because the typical narrative of success were there beep musicians athletes businessmen is that they worked really hard and then they got lucky and now they're successful and what outliers does is it says to actually understand what makes people successful we have to even go deeper than just work ethic or ambition or IQ scores we have to look at the things that we can't always see such as ours put in or environments people grew up in or mentors to really or even circumstances of where their family was located or even birthdays to really understand why people are successful and in doing that we can model some of the things to make us successful so I got ten big ideas here we're gonna go over on Malcolm Gladwell's outliers the story of success probably the biggest point from this book that everyone talks about is the 10,000 hour rule this is something Gladwell took from uh Erikson I don't know what his first name is who I think was a psychologist and basically how Gladwell sets it up in the book is that there was a violin study okay and this study looked at the top violinists it looked at teachers and it looked at good enough violinists this study looked at what makes violinists that are world class what's the defining factor is that money is an instrument as a skill level are they born with it and it distilled it down into one thing practice amount of hours practice this is the first point the 10,000 hour rule what was fascinating about this study is that they found three groups those that were good enough to be teachers had about 4,000 hours of practice those that were good enough to be considered good or skilled had about 8,000 hours but those who were the world class were talking you know selling out symphonies or performing armed with the greatest people the greatest musicians out there they had 10,000 hours of deliberate practice at least that very minimum and then this is extrapolated outward onto other people as well top fiction writers professional athletes motivational speakers Bill Gates The Beatles they all have this trend of having at least 10,000 hours put into something to become world-class at it so this kind of 10,000 hour rule benchmark has become a staple now for mastery that if you want to get good at something you got to put in the time you got to put in the work we have to put in our 10,000 hours whatever it is what does 10,000 hours look like well to illustrate it I busted out my iphone and did some calculations if you were to do that in one year seven days a week it's 27 hours a day so it's impossible to do in one year if you won't do it in five years it's about 5.4 hours a day to get those 10,000 hours if you want to do it over 10 years seven days a week it's about two to three hours a day okay so success takes time mastery takes time we can't rush this and that's why I really love this point is that if you want to get world-class at anything we got to put in our 10,000 hours start today know that you're not going to be perfect but if you keep striving at it and putting in the hours you're gonna get better results moving on to point number two this is a continuation on that first point okay so we need we know we need 10,000 hours to become world-class athlete speaker figure skate or whatever but it's not just 10,000 hours of showing up and dicking around for an hour it's 10,000 hours of deliberate practice this was the second point that those violinists weren't just going around in around no pun intended there um got the dad joke for you they were practicing scales they were hat the inactive instruction with feedback from mentors they were practicing songs they weren't just messing around that's not how we get 10,000 hours and you know many of you know I'm a drummer and so there's two kinds of practicing sessions there's kind of the drumming session where you just sit down and mess around for an hour two hours whatever play along with songs and that's cool you do develop some groove you do develop at first really fast but the second kind of practice is where you're actively deliberately practicing rudiments just running through all of them just hundreds and hundreds of times or you're practicing along to a click track which is just to work on your timing those are two different practice sessions when you walk away from the second one you feel like you've improved because you've gone back and put in the work so relating to your life with deliberate practice you know if you want to do a business it's not just waking up in the morning and doing email and social media that's the easy stuff but the success the mastery comes from when we do the stuff that's not always glamorous it's not always fun that's not our default setting a weightlifting great example the results come in the last three reps if you just work out like you always work out you're maintaining you're not depreciating because you're still showing up and doing work but if you really want to take it to the next level got to put in that extra effort of deliberate practice or in that case deliberate training in the last three reps sub-point on that you know I think the last thing I'll say on this deliberate practice is that those are the things we need to do the most are the things we don't want to do the exercises in the gym that we want to do the most or that we don't want to do the most you know pull-ups deadlifts squats why did it everyone skip leg day it's the hardest thing where you're gonna get the most results probably unlike day alright so with your business with your health with your personal growth you know let's take that one personal growth where do we not want to do the work maybe it's sitting down and asking the tough journaling questions and really taking the time out to go into those and challenge our own beliefs that are limiting us I don't know what it is for you but chances are if there's resistance around it and you know you're kind of supposed to do it that might be where you're gonna get the most results point number three it's not how good you are it's how good you want to be simple facts that talent is overrated that if we look at deliberate practice 10,000 hours there's a theme there between working at something and that no one who's successful give you examples in just a minute uh had it overnight no one who's successful had just one big lucky break no one posted one video and got successful no one wrote one song and got successful no one played painted one painting and got successful it was the practice in the hours put in that made them so one of the stories in here Gladwell talks about is Bill Gates phenomenal story you know the guy's worth 50 billion dollars right now one of the richest men in the world was the richest man in the world I know where he stacks up currently regardless to say it's undeniable that he's successful by monetary standards but no one when no one talks about is how he got there when he was 13 he got introduced to a computer and coding and he spent for seven months 1,500 hours coding and learning on that machine for the next seven years nearly a decade he didn't take a single day off he says so 12 hours a day for four 10 years just going at it seven days a week and then he gets the point of where he's successful you know I quite honestly I don't know if I would put in the same work I don't know if I had the same drive to do what he did for that long of time but if he had quit at any point of time he wouldn't have gotten the results no matter how much work he put in it's kind of called the dark years of Bill Gates right that decade of where he was just grinding it out in the cubicle coding away learning mastering his craft but of course when they do the stories the news stories in the news the headlines no one really talks about Bill Gates at 13 for seven months 1,500 hours no one really talks about those 10 years where he didn't see sunlight and didn't have a life essentially because it's not the sexy part what's sexy is if you can say Bill Gates is sexy is showing him with this big successful company and where he is now the story itself I mean if you were there watching it happen I'd probably be watching paint dry for ten years right let's completely throw out that third point for point number four let's argue against it that success comes from a lot of factors we can't see and this is a really cool point in the book because Gladwell looks at hockey players and birthdays one of those two things have in common that the most of the elite hockey players out there nearly all of them were born I believe it was in March why because when you look at the cutoff dates for their schools it's in December so if you're born earlier in the year January February March you have an extra six seven eight nine months in your grade is that you have physical maturity so if you're seven to nine months older than people it's essentially a year and when you're developing it makes all the difference so if you're developing faster you're playing better you get noticed more by coaches so you get more one-on-one coaching or you get more gear you get more sponsorships or whatever because you're seen as better when in reality you're just more physically mature by nine months sometimes something is almost ambiguous as a birthday does play a difference let's go back to Bill Gates okay let's argue against him so yeah he put in the 10,000 hours yeah he had all that stuff but what he did have that no one else did was unique access to one of the first computers and I believe a mentor who showed him how to use it if he didn't have that you know he would have just been a really smart guy still brilliant man but he wouldn't be the 50 billion dollars Bill Gates because he didn't have that unique access and that one school to that computer one of the first ones so sometimes it is about circumstance it is about luck it is about being born early it is about the things we can't change point number five this is the deeper layer quote here it's not enough to ask what successful people are like it is only by asking where they are from that we can unravel the logic behind those who succeed and those who don't this is getting at the core of what makes successful people tick and we went over it last week in I have it right here steal like an artist so if you want to watch that video go back but it's saying that look if you're gonna model someone if you admire professional athlete speaker whatever don't just copy their results don't just try and copy what they've done try and go deeper into what makes them tick focus on the deeper layer of the onion if you want to go that route don't just focus on the outside because sometimes the outside isn't a representation of what's inside right you take off a few layers it's perfectly good but on the outside it looks like beat-up and rusted on so if you go into that deeper layer you have a much better chance of being successful like them this is called modeling and this is one of the fastest ways to speed up those 10,000 hours if you can think like they can think if you can act like they can act you will become successful faster so always when you're trying to mimic someone or learn from someone ask yourself it's worth asking ourselves what is what is this person thinking how are they moving how are they acting modeling alright let's do a success story this is number six The Beatles The Beatles performed live in Hamburg Germany over 1200 times from 1960 to 1964 so that's way more than 10,000 hours right there they go down as one of the mainstream acts of all time uh you look at them hustling and grinding it out I mean 1200 shows in a matter of four years that's 300 shows a year that's 82% chance on a night they're gonna be playing a show eight out of ten nights they played shows ah that's phenomenal they're grinding it out the biographer who wrote their book said by the time they returned back to Hamburg Germany they sounded like no one else it was the making of them it was those four years of just that constant practice that 300 shows a year that made them the Beatles what would they be like if they played 100 shows a year 50 shows a year you know it's still to a month three five five a month I don't know that's still quite a bit but it's not the level of masteries at the level of obsession they had thus why they're the greatest point number seven this is the one thing I went over it about a month ago be sure you check out that video the basic premise of the book and what we're talking about here ten thousand hours practice mastery outliers is that those people who master something have put in enough time but they've chosen one thing to master and that success comes to those who obsess not diversify so if Bill Gates went out let's go with him if he went out and said I'm gonna master coding I'm gonna master engineering and I'm gonna master public speaking all at the same time well it's not that he couldn't do it it's that it would have taken him two three five times longer probably because he's trying to do all those things so instead of all that time going towards just coding just learning just mastering that language he would have been practicing other things and um you know five or six different balls juggling instead of just one this is the toughest one for us to realize that we do have to focus down on two things because even even myself guys I mean those who follow this channel you know it's the hardest one um but ultimately success comes to those who obsess master one thing before moving on to the others so the question to you is what's your one thing what are you gonna master how are you gonna master it pick and choose what are you gonna put ten thousand hours in really good question next point is the lifespan of mastery so last week again we went over steal like an artist and it's all talking about the lifespan of a project and when we start anything that we think we're gonna master it's like it's the best idea in the world and then what happens we start seeing results really really fast and then at the end you know we start plateauing and we say is this really what I'm doing because I used to be getting all these results really fast and they came really easily now it feels like it's dragging and we hit that dip that resistance that danger point of where we're quit so if we quit there that's fine we just experimented but if we want to master something if we're really committed to it we push past it and that's actually where we become the best in the world and get all the results so there's resistance there's the dip whatever you want to call it love this concept because I think it separates um just times in my life where I've dabbled with times I've mastered something all right the next point this is track it if we're on the path to mastery on the path to our 10,000 hours on the path of being an outlier someone who's successful we need a way to track it the quote what gets measured gets managed love it we need tools to track our progress and keep us motivated you know I'm sure Bill Gates had tools he looks back on his first coding and he laughs at it and he sees the progress because that's motivating so I don't know if you need tools ah this could be if you're trying to do health wellness before-and-after photos that's great if you're committed to putting in the 10,000 hours to get yourself in best shape possible wouldn't you want to look back on progress photos weekly monthly yearly I don't know what it is that's a great way to do it public speaking if you're trying to master public speaking film your first speech film your first podcast do something so you can look back on it in a couple years once you're getting better and you constantly see the improvements and the results if you try to do youtube videos it's easy because it's already filmed for you you look back on some of the videos on this channel go to videos hit oldest I mean it's laughable you're sitting there talking about kind of six-pack abs in my college stairwell um it is you see the improvements over time and that is very motivating trust me so you need a way to track things and one of the best ways to track things sometimes that are intangible but still worth pursuing like self growth or knowledge or wisdom or just goals in life seeing if you're on track or off track is broken record here let me grab it is to keep a journal right here this is the best thing you will ever do for yourself improve selfs discovery self-mastery honestly if you want to track progress if you want to get results if you want to apply ten thousand hours this is your new go to watch some of the videos on this channel it's not about just the tool anyone can buy this learn how to use this tool I put together a course based on my seven years experience using journaling as a tool to develop myself I've put videos training videos on this channel that are completely free but if you want to really master this learn how to use it on your path to achieve whatever you want visit my best journal com it's the hundred-percent first-ever course that'll change your life on start to finish how to use a journal in under four hours constantly updating that I'm so proud of that course and this is my formal invitation to you to join that course over there at my best journal com alright the tenth big idea let's just recap what we have in this book outliers we have when you put in the effort you get rewards focus on factors you can change and put massive effort behind it remember that those who obsess about one thing get the rewards realize there's factors you can't change but don't spend too much time worrying about them last point get clarity and track your progress alright that is it those are the 10 best ideas from Malcolm Gladwell's outliers great read it's a really talented writer has a ton of writing experience if you like this video please give it a big thumbs up and let me know in the comments down below what's your favorite one of these points work or if you agree or disagree with any of them we love getting the conversation started on this channel and learning from each other mentioned it but my best journal com is where we can't is where you can change your life in four hours it's the course I threw together if you're looking to track your progress get results on the path to mastery head over there find out more information last thing 11 questions to change your life this is the free ebook I put out all about the questions for mastery thousands of people done this free ebook by now constantly gets great great results people send in photos to my email address of their journals or their questions and I would love to have you in there as well just head on over there links in the description or click anywhere on here oof that is it thank you so much for watching I love doing these book reviews guys um it's kind of a new a new thing for me definitely but it I I find that almost talking about these books and putting together these blog posts and videos you get to be in these ideas even more and master them on that level and they say the best way to master something is to teach it so I guess that's what I'm doing here and my challenge to you would be to do the same so if there's a concept in here that you really resonated with share it on Facebook teach it on Facebook teach it on Twitter better yet record your own video of this book and tag me in it or send it to me I would love to see that love to see your video or shoot me an email or teach me something in the comments down below next week's book review or next couple weeks depending on when we get it out tentatively is the power of habit why we do what we do in life in business great read can't wait to dive into it I'll see you then until next time stop settling start living see you later

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Published: Mon Aug 29 2016