Malcolm Gladwell's "Outliers"

If Books Could Kill

In "Outliers," Malcolm Gladwell posited that it takes 10,000 hours of practice to become an expert in something. Mike and Peter prove him wrong by mastering his dumb book over the span of about 50 minutes.

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Links:

  • Malcolm Gladwell talks about responding to critics, and the perils of ‘Talking to Strangers’
  • Gladwell for Dummies 
  • Malcolm Gladwell interview 
  • The Role of Deliberate Practice in the Acquisition of Expert Performance 
  • The Dangers of Delegating Education To Journalists 
  • Good intuition takes years of practice 
  • Blinkered 
  • How Malcolm Gladwell Tricks You Into Believing 
  • Complexity and the Ten-Thousand-Hour Rule 
  • Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study

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