hey this is going to be an animated book
review of the book outliers by Malcolm
Gladwell ensure figure out why Asians
are so good at math you'll have to wait
to the end he starts off the book by
explaining that if you take a whole
bunch of hockey players and look at
their birthdays
there's a pattern a pattern appears that
the top of the top the best hockey
players are born in January February
March and he goes into analysis and he
starts finding out that the reason for
this is because we're here this will
explain in a little bit better right so
you have months 123456789 10 11 12 and
then you start over
123456789 10 11 12 and then after this
pattern for each grade of school there's
a cut off t if you were born before
December you are in the earlier great
but if you're born after December were
born into the next great and it was kind
of hard to explain but it's really easy
but it's pretty cool once you understand
it he says that those born in the
beginning of the year where towards the
end of the cut-off date that is they
were actually 5678 almost a year older
than their counterparts who were in
earlier dates he says that that those
couple extra months were viewed as
talent it made those players stand out
because that they got extra training
equipment extra gear when in reality
they're physical maturity was the thing
that made them better hockey players in
there is actually a status than those
born in later months
high school and college were more likely
to attempt suicide and that's simply
because they weren't as good as skill
and this this is the first big principle
that I kind of realized was that it does
matter when you were born that depending
on which grade you get put into a few
were the youngest or if you're the
oldest of your class you were going to
be selected in your going to be better
or worse than the rest of your class the
second principle as something called the
10,000 hour rule
after now says a whole bunch of chess
grandmasters and other people who were
really good at their craft when they
realized is that it takes around 10,000
hours to become the best of the best in
a truck when you start looking into it
you realize Mozart some of his early
works weren't even outstanding they
weren't even a star machine so I like to
view this as whenever you start
something whenever you start playing the
piano are you starting a new instrument
or a new programming language don't
expect to be good at it within the first
10 20 50 hours you have to put in the
hours do you work really hard and
creating your craft and getting really
good at it and this 10,000 hour rule can
be found in ice skaters fiction writers
basketball players even master criminals
were gonna take for example bill gates
that he was extraordinary when it came
to programming but the secret behind
this was because in high school starting
at the eighth grade he had access to one
of the world's newest computers and he's
found in during the summer during his
summers he spent a lot of time
understanding have a programming
language worked in fact the first seven
months and he was allowed to use it he
spent over 1,500 hours in that works out
to around eight hours a day for seven
days a week and for the next seven years
he practiced wave has 10,000 hours in
this is worried he is so noted this
helped him create Microsoft literally
that thousands of hours and hence taking
time he put into it helped him become
wealthy in his skill and they also found
that the difference between well sorry
and non wealthy parents is that wealthy
parents take their children and have
them do stuff all the time they're
always busy they're always at soccer
practice are always a violin practice
they are always practicing their skills
and cultivating them to become better
and this is principal number to the
10,000 hour rule you wanna get good at
something you have to start putting in
the time now principal number three was
a really cool I had kind of thought
about it a little bit but was really
cool I'm gonna present these numbers to
you
485 3976 and I want you to see them out
loud or in your head around 20 seconds
for a 5397 6485
3976 try to memorize them you can
possibly know if you need to know where
they found out was the students of the
English language could remember about
50% of them or they can remember the
entire sequence about half of the time
however Chinese students remember it
almost every single time and this is
because to say the numbers for 853 9762
sub vocalize them in our throats there
are more syllables and you cannot say
these numbers as quickly as you could
and Chinese it when he realizes that
generally you have room two seconds of
them short term memory of remembering
digits instance a Chinese can say these
numbers extremely fast they were they
remember more of them in another little
thing is our number system the English
number system 123456789 10 11 12 13 14
15 it's a little strange you would
expect after 10 it would be something
like one teen as opposed to 11 or two
team as opposed to 12 and this goes for
13 15 and other numbers like forty and
six years kinda close but fifty you
would expect it to be 55433 teen China
Japan and Korea they actually do this
more logically what they do is 11 is 10
112 is tend to animal a 24 is to tens
for in because their language is set up
a little different
by the age of five american children are
already a year behind their Asian
counterparts in this kind of gets into
what I mentioned at the beginning of
Asians are generally the people of the
aging culture are better at math so
principal number three is that language
is important they're moving under
principle for so he explains little bit
about what rice patties are and how
difficult they are to maintain the you
must put into the work you must put in
he kinda mentions that 10,000 hour rule
you really have to work at these rice
paddies in order to grow the rice and he
says that the cloture the Asian culture
to grow these rice paddies
it work really hard and they understand
that they need to work hard in order to
grow the rice paddies he says then the
Western cultures in order to get more of
a yield in order to get more corn we
just had to explain our technology but
the Asian culture says we don't
necessarily need to expand our
technology we just need to work harder
we need to put more work into it and
they found out that rights workers put
around 3,000 hours a year in the hot Sun
in this kind of moves on to the main
principle of principle and reform which
is they have this test is called the
team's test in every four years they
give it to a whole buncha countries in a
basically they balance the way it's and
see which countries really get a matter
which country is really good at science
and what they found was that unless
tested 220 questions which is it's
pretty extensive I mean questions you're
going to get tired by the end of it and
that's the end of it they included a
little questionnaire little survey to
ask simple questions such as what your
favorite color or are you male or female
just little questions like that are
questionnaires they didn't really have
you don't have to put much thought into
it is hard to try and what they found
was that the correlation between the
averages of the country's was that
questions answered on the questionnaire
was exactly the same as the math scores
and they came up with the conclusion
that mathematics isn't an innate ability
it's not something that you develop
automatically it's in fact it's an
attitude is that the harder you try the
better you Matthew are going to be and I
really like this principle in fact
principal them before the idea that
something isn't an innate ability talent
that you were born with that it is
actually an attitude that it is
something that you can develop that you
can cultivate this is my favorite
principal out of this book I have
mentioned four principles and I want you
to leave a comment below telling me
what's your favorite principle is thanks
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