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Outliers: The Story of Success - by Malcolm Gladwell
The Pragmatic Programmer - By Andrew hunt
Cracking the coding interview - Gayle Laakmann McDowell
Inverting the Pyramid - Jonathan Wilson
A pioneering book that chronicles the evolution of soccer tactics and the lives of the itinerant coaching geniuses who have spread their distinctive styles across the globe.
Teambuilding: the road to success - Rinus Michels
The late Rinus Michels, FIFA's Coach of the Century, offers his unique insight into the process of "teambuilding".
The Coaching Philosophies of Louis Van Gaal and the Ajax Coaches - Henny Kormelink and Tjeu Seeverens
Louis van Gaal, Frans Hoek, Co Adriaanse and fitness coach Bobby Haarms discuss their training methods and philosophies in this book full of creative ideas for soccer coaches at any level.
Dutch Soccer Secrets - Peter Hyballa & Hans-Dieter te Poel
This book is a first attempt to present expert knowledge of internationally proven useful and effective Dutch soccer coaching in theory and practice, based on qualitative data collection.
Attacking Soccer: a tactical analysis - Massimo Lucchesi
This book examines match strategies for creating goal scoring opportunities out of various systems of play.
Outliers: The Story of Success - Malcolm Gladwell
Gladwell takes us on an intellectual journey through the world of "outliers"--the best and the brightest, the most famous and the most successful. He asks the question: what makes high-achievers different?
The Numbers Game: Why Everything You Know About Soccer Is Wrong - Chris Anderson, David Sally
Innovation is coming to soccer, and at the centre of it all are the numbers—a way of thinking about the game that ignores the obvious in favour of how things actually are.
Football Against the Enemy - Simon Kuper
Kuper travelled to 22 countries from South Africa to Italy, from Russia to the USA, to examine the way football has shaped them.
It certainly takes individual effort to not squander the opportunities that one receives. And certainly there are a lot of lazy good for nothings.
It's naive to think that opportunities aren't based a great deal on luck though. Some people wholly never get any opportunities to succeed through no fault of their own. And to call people in these situations lazy and looking for handouts is just wrong.
If you really want to sink your teeth into this topic, I suggest reading Outliers. It may change the way you view success.
Gosh...these people need to read Outliers again.
No, you aren't a special snowflake. You have benefited directly, and indirectly, from generations of family heritage, community connections, and established institutions.
The book Outliers goes into depth about this topic. Child prodigies typically aren't particularly successful as adults.
http://www.amazon.com/Outliers-Story-Success-Malcolm-Gladwell/dp/0316017930
The book Outliers talks a lot about this. Frankly, the situation that you were born into matters more than anything else. Gates' school when he was 13 had a computer in which he started to hack it for longer access. Having a computer at the time was nearly impossible.
Most NHL players were born in the first quarter of the year due to timing/being the "best" ultimately because they are older than everyone else at their level.
The majority of start-ups are people with wealthy backgrounds because they can afford to take chances and know they have a fall-back (their family) when/if they fail. Ordinary people are forced to take jobs because they cannot afford to take chances.
You've been lied to your whole life. Natural talent accounts for very little. Anybody can be very good at anything if they practice enough.
Great writers, artists, athletes, scientists, chess players, etc have put thousands of hours of dedicated, focused time practicing.
10,000 Hours: You Become What You Practice
Outliers: The Story of Success
Find something you like, not something you think you should like, and start practicing. Take classes, read books, talk to experts in the field.
Malcolm Gladwell's Outliers popularized the idea.
If anyone wants to read more about this and similar phenomena, read Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell
http://www.amazon.com/Outliers-Story-Success-Malcolm-Gladwell/dp/0316017930
According to The Science on Women in Science gender bias is apparent as early as 4th grade in our school system. At the university level, thousands of science scholarships specifically set aside for girls go unfulfilled because our high schools are simply not graduating enough girls who qualify for them.
This isn't just a professional, academic level of sexism. It's much more deep rooted than that.
In Outliers, the law of diminishing academics are demonstrated. Essentially a small difference in population at age 10 is a huge difference at age 20. If you do not fix a problem in academic trends early on, the problem only gets exacerbated as time progresses.
What the data says is that if you want to fix the gender bias in the sciences in the professional world, you can't simply address those gender biases in the professional world. That is akin to putting a bandaid on a broken leg; it's just not going to fix the problem. You must start younger, in elementary school, if you want to fix this problem. If 60% of those very interested in the sciences in the 4th grade are boys, and 40% are girls; then by the beginning of college the gap in those number will increase to 70-30, or even 75-25. And by grad school those numbers can be as high as 85-15 depending on the specific scientific field and region. The gap widens, over time, due to the diminishing academics which are returned.
Without a push to get girls interested in the hard sciences early on in elementary school, there will always be a gender gap in adulthood. And not the small gap that exists in 4th grade, but the exacerbated gap that results.
And as long as that exacerbated gap exists there will be a gender-stereotype that women are not qualified in the sciences. Even with many examples of brilliant female scientists, when only 18% (depending on source) of PhD's in the hard sciences are being earned by women, the negative stereotype against women will persists. Simply gaining acceptance for those 18% is not enough. You must also make the changes early on, so that girls in the 4th grade see science as a legitimate career field that is exciting and interesting; so that girls do not self-sort themselves out of the sciences and so that teachers do not condition girls to think that sciences are not for them.
tl;dr - If we want to end the gender-bias in sciences we need to start in elementary schools and work our way up; as well as in the professional world and work our way down.
A few, in no particular order:
The Way of the Superior Man: A Spiritual Guide to Mastering the Challenges of Women, Work, and Sexual Desire
http://amzn.com/1591792576
Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion (Collins Business Essentials)
http://amzn.com/006124189X
Mastering Your Hidden Self: A Guide to the Huna Way (A Quest Book)
http://amzn.com/0835605914
My Secret Garden: Women's Sexual Fantasies
http://amzn.com/0671019872
Introducing NLP: Psychological Skills for Understanding and Influencing People (Neuro-Linguistic Programming)
http://amzn.com/1573244988
What Every BODY is Saying: An Ex-FBI Agent's Guide to Speed-Reading People
http://amzn.com/0061438294
The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature
http://amzn.com/0060556579
Outliers: The Story of Success
http://amzn.com/0316017930
Iron John: A Book About Men
http://amzn.com/0306813769
Outliers is a great book. everyone should read it.
It's hard to define "credit" in such scenarios.
For example: If I build an app from scratch and it takes off and I become a millionaire, I did that, myself, completely, right?
But...if I had the free time to do that because my parents gave me free housing and food, and they happened to live in Silicon Valley, giving me easy access to market it to higher-ups- didn't I technically have an advantage over someone else who might've been able to do the same thing?
But that doesn't take away from all the work I did.
The book Outliers is a fascinating take on this subject. The basic conclusion is that all (most?) ultra-successful people are a combination of luck (through birthright or location) and skill, but we as people want to believe it's primarily skill.
Hi! Psych major + bookworm over here. Some well written and accessible books that I've enjoyed reading are:
Thinking Fast and Slow from Kahneman http://www.amazon.com/Thinking-Fast-Slow-Daniel-Kahneman/dp/0374533555/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1375192703&sr=8-1&keywords=kahneman+thinking+fast+and+slow
Willpower: discovering the greatest human strength by Baumeister http://www.amazon.com/Willpower-Rediscovering-Greatest-Human-Strength/dp/0143122231/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1375192853&sr=1-1&keywords=willpower
And Outliers by Gladwell http://www.amazon.com/Outliers-Story-Success-Malcolm-Gladwell/dp/0316017930/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1375192928&sr=1-2&keywords=10000+hours
Baumeister and Kahneman are the leading figures on the research done within their particalur fields and these books show a glimpse inside of the kitchen, so to speak. (Iḿ not 100% sure about Gladwell, Iḿ on my phone atm). The books are well written, accessible, entertaining and fascinating.
Series of fortunate events for Bill Gates taken from outliers.
>Opportunity number one was that Gates got sent to
>Lakeside. How many high schools in the world had access to
>a time-sharing terminal in 1968?
>
>Opportunity number two was that the mothers of Lakeside had enough money to pay
>for the school's computer fees.
>
>Number three was that, when that money ran out, one of the parents happened to work
>at C-Cubed, which happened to need someone to check
>its code on the weekends, and which also happened not to
>care if weekends turned into weeknights.
>
>Number four was that Gates just happened to find out about ISI, and ISI just
>happened to need someone to work on its payroll software.
>
>Number five was that Gates happened to live within walk
>ing distance of the University of Washington.
>
> Number six
>was that the university happened to have free computer time
>between three and six in the morning.
>
> Number seven was
>that TRW happened to call Bud Pembroke.
>
> Number eight
>was that the best programmers Pembroke knew for that par
>ticular problem happened to be two high school kids.
>
>And
>number nine was that Lakeside was willing to let those kids
>spend their spring term miles away, writing code.
>And what did virtually all of those opportunities have
>in common? They gave Bill Gates extra time to practice.
>
>
>By the time Gates dropped out of Harvard after his soph
>omore year to try his hand at his own software company,
>he'd been programming practically nonstop for seven con
>secutive years. He was way past ten thousand hours.
>
>How
>many teenagers in the world had the kind of experience
>Gates had? "If there were fifty in the world, I'd be
>stunned," he says. "There was C-Cubed and the payroll
>stuff we did, then TRW—all those things came together.
>I had a better exposure to software development at a young
>age than I think anyone did in that period of time, and all
>because of an incredibly lucky series of events."
For the whole chapter on Bill... pastebin.
Did you? His father was a big shot lawyer, his mother was on the board of many companies and had many connections. His mother's family is well connected in the Seattle area. This is well stated throughout some of his biographies (notably HardDrive and you should probably read up on Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell to get an idea on a big part of how Gates rose to success.
I've been where you're at, thinking I was an absolute retard and ashamed of my parents. You are nowhere near your full potential. Anxiety diminishes your cognitive function like the other guy said. That's your EQ, and it's more important than your inherited intelligence. Life is all about momentum. I recommend picking up the book Outliers, as it clearly demonstrates this. Distraction short circuits the learning process. This is what your panic attacks do to your personal growth. You want to meditate and live life by your inner voice without inner conflict. You eventually get a flow going and you'll be surprised at much more intelligent you will feel within a deep meditative focus. You just try to ride the wave as long as you can, and you create the momentum to get over any hurdle.
I have both the horrible self-perception that rivals yours, and I have extreme love for all of my best characteristics. I'm currently working through it myself. PM me if you want to talk through this.
EVERYONE is who they are... your a tough guy in high school you will still be a tough guy.
your a jerk you will be a jerk.... SEALs doesn't change you.
BUT, when you are working with a small group that works so close and relays on each other so much you EXPECT and always get perfection... not many places that work like that.... when you get out of the SEALs and still require or expect that level of dedication and perfection it makes you a bit anxious and angry... maybe that is what you are noticing is our DEMAND for working with only the best and being very impatient with most people because most people don't care.
READ the book about Outliers...
http://www.amazon.com/Outliers-Story-Success-Malcolm-Gladwell/dp/0316017930
Just finished Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell. It's about how some of the most successful people in the world got to be successful: through a combination sheer of timing, luck, and practice. I've been recommending it to everyone who mentions reading. FANTASTIC book.
i listened to this book, its a great read. if you like this you should check out outliers by malcolm gladwell.
http://www.amazon.com/Outliers-Story-Success-Malcolm-Gladwell/dp/0316017930
I believe good timing and luck are just as critical, if not moreso, as the other qualities. Outliers makes a good argument for this.
You know what they say, you need 10,000 hours to be an expert. There are no shortcuts to glory. The iron doesn't lie.
Yes, LA is full of actors who've dedicated their life to the craft. Many manage to earn a comfortable living -- and very few of those dedicated actors will earn hundreds of millions of dollars.
This is a near universal dynamic across many career paths in which moderate success is common and outstanding success is rare and extremely lucrative.
Malcolm Gladwell wrote a book on this very subject: Outliers: The Story of Success. I suggest you read it.
I read a lot of non-fiction, largely science/sociology/psych/econ/math related things. I like learning more about what makes people tick and how the world behaves.
If that's of interest to you:
The easy to read starting points are the "pop-science" type of books. Freakonomics one example. Also things like Malcom Gladwell's books or Mary Roach's all fall into this category for me.
Assuming you're remotely interested in the topic, they're pretty engaging and have a narrative of sorts throughout. The downside is they're often a little lighter on the scientific details and sometimes (especially Gladwell) seem to have had an idea and then looked for evidence to support it rather than presenting a balanced perspective.
But with all this sort of writing, I view it as a stepping point to get me to think about things in a way I haven't thought about it before and consider their ideas, not necessarily to be taken as gospel that "their idea is 100% correct, this is how everything works".
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The mid-tier in terms of reading difficulty up from that if you find yourself liking it, are things like Dan Ariely's books (on human behavior, especially rationality + honesty) or Nate Silver's book (about the use of and issues with prediction and probability/statistics in the real world, he does the 538 site). The writing is still engaging, but there's much more of a focus on the experiments or experimental/mathematical evidence to support their ideas.
Just want to shoot my mouth off here for a minute.
Incarcerated, Ted Bundy gave a number of interviews in the misguided hopes of being deemed a valuable contributor to law enforcement, and thus spared the death penalty. In several of these he went at length on the "hypothetical" origins of serial killers, and why they enjoyed such success in 1970s America and onwards.
One of his insights was society had become depersonalized, with communities disintegrating, and people traveling across the country, surrounded by strangers who didn't necessarily notice or care that someone was here one day, gone the next. While Bundy disregarded advances in law enforcement technique, it's also true many of those technologies and sciences emerged from high profile cases like Bundy's.
That's part of the nature of serial killers, being predators of populations requires vulnerable targets, or at some level society having a blind spot. The most prolific serial killers targeted so called victim populations- homeless, prostitutes, homosexuals, those society generally didn't address or concern itself with.
THe other part goes back to the nature of societies- Gladwell's seminal work makes a case for differences of culture between east and west dating back to agrarian roots-tight knit cultures of rice paddies developing societies intrinsically different than the labor intensive but individualistic trends that emerged in the feudal fields of Europe.
The consequences for these among predators is the nature of the victim pool-simply that in an individualistic, privacy minding and impersonal society, there is less watchfulness( bearing in mind generalities, not absolutes across all communities or ethnic groupings, but as broad strokes of cultural influence). What impact this may have for criminals preying on targets can probably be discerned from instances like Hong Kong's scarcity of serial killing.
TL;DR: Whether from tight knit community awareness, government crackdown on 'deviants' that catches would-be killers early in their development, social factors like Triad protectionism, or a greater sense of community vs western individualism that readily identifies problems with individuals relating to the group, Hong Kong is not prime real estate for budding psychopaths.
Because making loose correlations between anecdotal observations is a lot easier than thinking about socioeconomic issues. Because humans are hardwired to be tribal, and most of our self selected tribes are monochromatic. Sapiens, Outliers, and The Tipping Point touch on these flaws in our wetware.
My most recent reads in no particular order:
Project Management: A Managerial Approach http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0470226218
Project Management http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0136065619
Crossing the Chasm http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0060517123
Product Design and Development http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0073101427
Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes Are High http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0071401946
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0743269519
Portfolio Management For New Products http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0738205141
Operations Management http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0324179391
Third Generation R & D http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0875842526
Being the Boss http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/142216389X
Drive http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1594484805
Authentic Leadership http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0787975281
Good Boss, Bad Boss http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0446556084
Outliers http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0316017930
Seven Lessons for Leading in Crisis http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0470531878
The Upside of the Downturn http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002XULXOM
Negotiation Techniques http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B005EP2DZ6
What Every BODY is Saying http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0061438294
Ackoff's Best http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0471316342
Tough Conversations With Your Boss http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B005HKM7UE
Have you read Outliers ? You should consider it. It makes the argument that IQ and "talent" are much less important than working hard once you reach a certain level (say a 120 I.Q). So while the men may be more "talented" the women are in end much more successful. I dont see how the hardest workers working their way to the top lowers standards. There are many super intelligent people in shitty jobs because they dont have the drive, and slightly less intelligent people who actually contribute to society.
edit: I love blatant sexism is allowed in this thread but I make a comment about how talent doesnt really exist and I'm voted down. makes sense.
I don't know that police/local government in a deep south town is going to consider this child abuse at all. I suspect it would do little to help OP's situation.
OP - try to find out the name of the camp. Then go online and research it, see if you can find others who have attended, what you can expect on arrival.
It's a really unpleasant thing to have to discover at such a young age that your family cannot be relied upon to support you, especially in times like this when you are the center of negative attention from others. Try not to let it get you down. Remember that before this, you had a good relationship with your parents. You may be able to get back to that - especially because they want that, too.
What others have posted about enduring is probably the best strategy. It sounds like other than being bigots, your parents haven't been abusive, and hopefully won't go that direction if presented with a world that makes them happy.
I'm not saying lie, but you may be able to convince them you were just 'being confused'. Remember, they want to believe all this deconversion/de-gay stuff works. You only have a few more years of school before college, so try the following, all of which I consider to be good advice for anyone:
Put some time and effort into becoming a well-rounded person. Have a full life. If nothing else, it can lead to successes that your parents, if they care at all (and it sounds like they do) will have to consider when sending you off to de-gay-my-kid camp. "Well, we could send him to ex-gay camp again this summer, but won't that interfere with ____ ?" "Yes, you are right... we can try skipping the camp this summer; that __ will help him get into a good school."
What I mean by that is, let's say you get into programming. You start doing websites for friends of the family, dad's employer, whatever. Maybe you and your dad attend a local meetup about some programming language, etc and you are able to talk with people working in the field. You do some hobby projects, maybe contribute to a volunteer group ... basically you find something (programming in my example) that you can be good at and kinda enjoy and you GO FOR IT. You put time and effort and get good.
I use programming as an example because it is easy to get into, but there are lots of options. It depends on YOU and what you find interesting.
Read books. Seriously. Not just fun books, but books like this :
There are a LOT of people studying and writing about how to be successful in life. Study. Read. Learn. It will give you an advantage over anyone in your age group that you are even aware of that. If you read something like Outliers and take it to heart, it will literally put you years ahead of someone who doesn't. I'm only listing a few, but there are lots of books out there. Amazon is your friend, most have kindle editions that can be read without a special device, just use the cloud reader. There is some useless stuff in the self-help/motivational section, so research the book, read professional reviews, etc etc as well as the Amazon user reviews. Develop skepticism and a mind capable of weighing evidence, and then form your own opinions.
Overall, though, the idea is to show your parents a kid that is succeeding at life. Try to let the gay issue go away, and endure. Remember what someone else posted - your parents love you and the problem only arises because they have some really messed up ideas about gender, sexual orientation, etc. that they have gotten from the church. They think they are saving your from a Great Evil. Respect them for good intentions, if that makes sense. I've known people with parents who didn't care about their kids at all and were frankly horrible, terrible people that I would never trust with a child. As bad as things seem now, your parents do love you and that's a great foundation for the future. Just try to show them your best face, a successful child, and build confidence that they have done a good job raising you.
College and adulthood hold the promise of freedom, independence, and the support of your peers. It's really quite a nice world out here.
edit: added some to the 2nd from last paragraph
I hope this one isn’t too obvious, but In my own opinion, Outliers, by Malcolm Gladwell is a must. This is the famous 10,000 hours theory of how if you put this much time towards actively learning something, you can become an expert at it. There is plenty of real world examples and references, like the Beatles, Wayne Gretzky, Bill Gates, Tiger Woods, and so on. Not only is it extremely interesting, but there were aspects of this book that I have been able to apply to other parts of my life besides work.
Outliers
The other answers here are all very good. Here are some books that can maybe help address your question:
Talent is Overrated: What Really Separates World-Class Performers from Everybody Else by Geoff Colvin
The Practicing Mind: Developing Focus and Discipline in Your Life - Master Any Skill or Challenge by Learning to Love the Process by Thomas M. Sterner
Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell
I think a lot of people believe that your intelligence is whatever it is, and that you can't change it. I think those people are wrong and probably don't deserve whatever intellectual spark they were gifted with. That said, let's review what you want to learn.
Super fast with math
Amazing with:
spelling
grammar
and large words
Great at deciphering puzzles
winning board games like:
scrabble
chess
I'm going to go the boring route and cite a book I haven't read myself: Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell (http://www.amazon.com/Outliers-Story-Success-Malcolm-Gladwell/dp/0316017930). There's a much-used quote in it that says to become an expert at anything, do it for 10,000 hours. At least I think there is. To save both you and I the trouble of propagating bullshit we haven't read, we'll pull a quote from the study the book was based on off the internet:
"Our research shows that even the most gifted performers need a minimum of ten years (or 10,000 hours) of intense training before they win international competitions. In some fields the apprenticeship is longer: It now takes most elite musicians 15 to 25 years of steady practice, on average, before they succeed at the international level." (https://hbr.org/2007/07/the-making-of-an-expert)
So I think it's important that you understand that no one makes a 10,000 hour slog through anything without loving it first. So either find a reason to love the activities you mentioned above or move on to find others you will.
Now I'm going to get really anecdotal with you. I'm not a genius, but I love puzzles and puzzle games, I played chess as a child and used to be pretty good (it's been years now, however) but I generally love finding new puzzles and writing mental algorithms to solve them. This is very relaxing for me; when I am troubled or stressed, I often find myself doing minor arithmetic in my head because it calms me down and helps me feel like I'm imposing order on the world. Which sounds creepy now that I've typed it out.
There are plenty of videos on Youtube about fast calculation tricks (http://www.glad2teach.co.uk/fast_maths_calculation_tricks.htm). I've found that playing with numbers in your head (I frequently look at license plates and phone numbers and create math problems from them) makes you begin to understand the relationships between numbers. I think a lot about factoring numbers in to primes-- in fact, think about what you think about right now. If you want to do math quickly in your head, you're probably going to need to switch what you're thinking about to math.
Being good with grammar and spelling and words is actually easier, by comparison. Just read, all the time. The longer you read, the more you read, the more grammar will simply write itself on your neurons. You'll get used to seeing the words, and you'll recall them, and how they fit together. Again, love these things, or find a reason to love them.
Chess is its own deep well. Scrabble likely is, too, and probably well beyond just knowing big words. I spent many hours in a library as a kid trying to read and understand chess move notation but never being willing to read through it and trace the moves on the board so it would become natural in my head to imagine where pieces were being placed.
I think that's kind of the guts of the problem; if you want expertise or genius or whatever you call it, you have to start from a deep love of the thing you are pursuing. That love will drive you to read and learn and think about the things you love, which will in turn drive you deeper in to those things.
It's important that you approach this measuredly; if you hate what you're doing, you'll stop. If what you're reading is boring, you'll stop. Always try to find what's interesting about it to you, and stick to it. Day in and day out, just keep doing these things and loving them and you'll make it through.
For me? Repetition.
Repetition repetition repetition repetition repetition repetition ad infinitum.
When I study I use insane repetition to beat the information into my head.
For instance, when I need to memorize a table or diagram, I draw it multiple times a day, every day, until I can draw it from memory without help. This is how I memorized the "crosswalk" for the project management professional exam (http://imgur.com/a/An7K7).
When I need to memorize a set of items, I turn it into a sentence. Please Do Not Take Stupid People Anywhere helps me remember the 7 layers of the OSI model in networking.
When I need to remember definitions and facts, I write them multiple times on paper and on notecards. LPTinaLPT: Cut notecards in half or thirds, punch a hole in them in the same place, and keep them together with a book ring. You now have a nifty keychain study guide that you can flip through whenever you have free time.
And, of course, if you're memorizing a formula of any sort, doing endless problem sets is the way to remember what comes out of it.
Also, go read "Outliers" (https://www.amazon.com/Outliers-Story-Success-Malcolm-Gladwell/dp/0316017930) it's what finally made studying, of all things, click for me. Just wish I'd read it before college!
i read it in a book called outliers by malcolm gladwell. great book, def recommend.
https://www.amazon.com/Outliers-Story-Success-Malcolm-Gladwell/dp/0316017930
Malcolm Gladwell discussed this in the excellent book Outliers.
https://www.amazon.com/Outliers-Story-Success-Malcolm-Gladwell/dp/0316017930
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outliers_(book)
His treatment is nuanced. If I remember correctly, he argues that wealthy families tend to produce successful children because of a culture within the family that teaches that obstacles can be overcome.
Gladwell describes specific cases of people proven to be possessed of exceedingly high IQ's that allowed themselves to be stymied by obstacles. And he sites cases of people with less intellectual endowment that managed to find success after overcoming many obstacles because they saw obstacles as something to deal with rather than something to be defeated by.
I suppose that not being beat up by poverty in youth might help one to avoid feeling that one was destined to be a victim.
It's longer than you think though when it comes to youth hockey development.
Malcom Gladwell begins his book "Outliers" discussing a game between the Medicine Hat Tigers and Vancouver Giants and noticing a large number of the 'top' players are early birthdays (ie, JAN/FEB/MAR). Why? Likely the 'outlying' factor is that because of their age they've matured, physically, a little quicker and thus have the strength to dominate other players in their age class. Thus, they outperform the others, get on more select/varsity/elite clubs, get more advanced training, coaching, attention and thus have a higher likelihood of succeeding.
Does that mean they're more talented? Not necessarily. But Gladwell argues that at a young age the early birthday gives the kids a huge head-start on the others.
PLD is born in June, FWIW.
>As passionate as you are about needing tons and tons of practice to become a good player, that just isn't the case.
This is dead wrong. Good players, including the greatest ones we've all heard of, put an unbelievable number of hours into pool. They weren't just born with some innate talent that makes them able to visualize cuts or have steady hands. What separates top tier from the rest isn't genetic and it isn't how much money they spent gambling. It's work, and having more opportunities to put hours on the table. It really is that simple.
You should check out a book called Outliers.
BTW, We don't disagree that focused practice is better than dicking around... that's absolutely true.
But the way you play in tournaments/gambling is not practice at all. It's not geared towards learning new skills. It isn't about improving your stroke, or trying new shots. It's 100% geared towards "don't lose".
That means if you have a new and unfamiliar shot you could try, or a safe familiar way... you'll pick the familiar way every time.
If you're trying to fix your stroke and it means holding the cue differently, and you don't feel comfortable and miss a ball... you'll revert right back to your old stance.
And if you have a shot you know is right, but you suck at it, you won't take it.
In tournaments and gambling, you won't work on your weaknesses, shoot shots you hate, or try options you're scared of... not with your money and pride on the line. Anyone who spends most of their pool time doing this stuff will improve more slowly and probably lose a bunch of money in the process than someone who just does focused practice every week.
City of Bones by Cassandra Clare
This would be nice.
You ALL still have Zoidberg!
I'm reading Elon Musk's biography right now and think it might be helpful if you're talking about career success. The dude seems like a jerk but has an incredible work ethic and drive to succeed.
You can say pretty much the same exact thing about Augustus' biography.
Outliers really helped me a lot, because it made me realize talent wasn't nearly important as skill/effort. You put in the time and effort and you will develop your skills.
If you're an introvert like me these books helped me "fake it till I make it" or just want to be more socially capable: Charisma Myth, anything by Leil Lowndes, Make People Like You in 90 Seconds. Not a book but the Ted Talk about body language by Amy Cuddy
A book on leadership I always hear good things about but haven't read yet is Start With Why.
God, this is something I've thought about a lot...
I lived in Japan when I was in college, and one of the biggest things I noticed was the huge difference the two cultures have on learning, what I ended up calling The Cult of Originality and The Cult of Mastery.
In The Cult of Mastery, the Japanese method, originality isn't valued as highly as the complete mastery of the fundamentals, followed by the mastery of an already existing style. After multiple styles are mastered, that's when the learner can start melding them together, to create something unique, and perhaps his own style, but this is an afterthought, not the goal.
The other side of the coin is the American Cult of Originality, in which the goal is to create new material from day one, and the fundamentals are only a stepping stone to that creation of your own new material.
To put this in return top terms, in Japan, a flawless execution of a routine in Jensen Kimmet's style will score higher in a competition than a flawed original execution. In America, the reverse is true, originality will always win.
My biggest takeaway from all of this, as an American, is to not give a shit if people think my style is derivative. I've only been taking throwing seriously for about nine months, which ain't a long time. I will keep drilling the fundamentals, and mimicking styles I like, all with the faith that originality will come at when those fundamentals are not enough.
If you like this line of thinking, I would really recommend the books The Art of Learning (by the guy who Searching for Bobby Fisher was based on, who became a world champion in martial arts later on in life), The Road to Excellence (which is expensive, but you can find pdfs of on the internet), Malcom Gladwell's Outliers, and The Book of Five Rings
Around your age (high school), people are very obsessed with talent. Some musicians at this age seem destined for greatness, while others don't.
It's a total load of crap. Now that I'm in my 30s, I have enough evidence to say this. Of the most "talented" musicians in my age group, almost all of them amounted to absolutely nothing. A few are moderately successful, but the majority completely flamed out. Meanwhile, many people my age who seemed "middle of the pack" turned into great musicians and have won positions in orchestras or universities.
Studies of child prodigies have shown that few transition to greatness in adulthood. For every Mozart there are a dozen dropouts. This doesn't mean talent is imaginary or unnecessary. Instead, some have argued that you just need "enough" talent to make it in a given field, and the rest is a mix of hard work, teachers and luck.
So, some advice: first of all, stop fearing and competing with your peers. They are an incredible resource for you to learn from and some might just become your friends for life. You are so lucky to be surrounded by capable musicians at this age. Second, stop worrying about something you can't change (your inherent talent) and focus on continually improving. If you can get just a little better every day, eventually you'll be incredible.
I think if you can change your perspective in these ways, you'll be a little more excited about being a musician and a little less intimidated by other musicians or things you can't control. Best of luck to you.
Read Malcolm Gladwell's The Outliers. In it, he makes a strong case that people who are very good at things are not "smarter" or "naturally talented." They just spend a lot more time practicing those things. He uses the figure of 10,000 hours. It's a guideline, not a hard-and-fast rule though. Start putting in more time, and you will catch up.
Thanks QuaintTerror. Everyone has their own opinions/conclusions about League of Legends, but first and foremost I'm a data analyst so this is how I see the world.
I think a deep dive on PoE is super interesting too! When I saw the DPM-D post from League of Analytics, PoE jumped out to me right away and I remember messaging Timbolt about it.
Speaking of outliers, have you read Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell?
I believe it was in Malcolm Gladwell's Outliers that he described the trend of unique names and, especially, the link to race.
As I remember, black Americans are more likely to have unique or uncommon names and white Americans are more likely to have the most common names.
I'm someone going into school psychology and I've read a number of really good books that have had a huge impact on the way I view people and recognize a lot of both macro and micro-level issues that people, and especially children, deal with. That said, my favorites would be Outliers and Blink by Malcolm Gladwell and Ain't No Makin' It by Jay MacLeod.
You should read this book http://www.amazon.com/Outliers-Story-Success-Malcolm-Gladwell/dp/0316017930/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1321507974&sr=8-1
Well there's the sequel of course: Superfreakonomics. And everything by Malcom Gladwell kind of falls into the same genre: The Tipping Point, Outliers, Blink... Then there's The Long Tail by Chris Anderson of Wired and Bad Science by The Guardian's Ben Goldacre....
A Short History of Nearly Everything is also absolutely brilliant 'popular science' but not as 'generation now' as the ones above.
That's just top of my head. All of these books are a few years old but still a great read. I'd say they're all typical Redditor reading if that makes sense.
Talent is Overrated: What Really Separates World-Class Performers from Everybody Else https://www.amazon.com/Talent-Overrated-Separates-World-Class-Performers/dp/1591842948
The Talent Code: Greatness Isn't Born. It's Grown. Here's How https://www.amazon.com/Talent-Code-Greatness-Born-Grown/dp/0099519852
Outliers: The Story of Success https://www.amazon.com/Outliers-Story-Success-Malcolm-Gladwell/dp/0316017930
I really recommend a book about this whole topic: Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell
http://www.amazon.com/Outliers-Story-Success-Malcolm-Gladwell/dp/0316017930
You are spot on with "going to keep attempting projects that are outside of my ability". This and the concept of deliberate practice has shown to be key to effective learning. Popular books supporting this are:
Both books are based on the research of K. Anders Ericsson. Specifically:
Personally I have found pushing myself beyond my comfort zone as the most effective way to learn new skills. Hats off to you on your approach!
*When you have skill, insight, and/or tremendous help
As somebody who has done okay for myself, fuck this image.
Is it good to realize everything has an opportunity cost? Sure. Absolutely.
Is it good to emphasize that your mental health is a diminishing resource? Sure. Absolutely.
Just remember that 75%+ of SMBs go bust. Most successful endeavors--whether it be SV startup, book writer, restaurateur, etc--are generally backed by family or existing personal capital.
Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell 2011
Malcolm Gladwell or Bill Bryson spring to mind. Entertaining, engaging and light hearted, yet still packed with good content.
If you were looking for fiction recommendations, have you thought of short stories? Gabriel Garcia Marquez has quite a collection - I'd recommend Strange Pilgrims.
Edit: Added links.
I don't think you can force a style upon yourself without blatantly copying someone else.
Based on the style you are currently shooting in, the fact that you have only 38 photos on flickr, and your approximate age (assuming you are the subject in the photos), you need to shoot a lot more.
Keep shooting the way you do maybe. Try to improve your technique both at the camera and at the computer in photoshop while thinking critically about what you like/don't like about your work. Your style will develop organically as you introduce or take away things that are either lacking or over pronounced in your work. Eventually you fill find a way of working that really flows well for you.
I think the best advice is to move slowly and try not to get too frustrated with yourself if you dislike your results.
There is a theory that it takes 10000 hours to master any craft: source. That's a lot of time, but think of any truly talented person you follow. People don't wake up one day with flawless photographic technique, much like someone that runs casually will not be taking any medals in the olympics.
Concepts may appear out of the blue, but the ability to translate it exactly as you wish into any artistic space is really the holy grail of any artform. And it takes a lot of practice.
Practice practice practice :D
Just try to be uncompromising while keeping yourself conscious of every artistic decision you make. Your style will flow out of you with little effort if you are practiced and confident.
And don't fake it - we'll know ;) :D :D
Outliers
This is true that there have been great strides in reducing public sponsored displays from a single religion especially in the majority. If a festival wants a Christian symbol, the state allows all faiths to be included, as not to hold one specific religion above another. It becomes an all or nothing. Some areas are still resistant. I am okay with a Valedictorian to pray during her/his speech, but the school should not validate it nor should it be a cue for mandating everyone to follow prayer.
You are correct in the origin. The tree comes from an origin of a belief system, even if it isn't Christian. I personally don't have an issue with it. Since it has Pagan origins and was integrated with Christianity at a later point, it has gained wider acceptance. I am not of a religion, and i wouldn't presume as to someone from another belief system would think about Christmas trees.
I understand the distinction. I understand the linguistic argument. What about this? Should this be accommodated for the minority? In a privately held company i would say no, and that is up to the business. Just like a halal market, kosher distributors, et cetera have a concentrated clientele. As for the public, religious beliefs are protected in the U.S.A. There is an extent as if it brings harm to the public at large. If it doesn't bring harm than it can be accomidated to respect that religion.
We accommodate much more than most people believe for all religions. Here is the EEOC (Equal Employment Opportunity Commission) on what the work place is able to do, there is only one that would support your point. Undue hardship for the business/government.
If you want to use the logic that we shouldn't segregate facilities than there should be one dressing room. Seriously, it is far more efficient to maintain, less initial overhead costs, accommodate a wide audience, parents wouldn't have to separate for facilities because their young children based on gender (specifically ages around 5-8), and probably more positive reasons. But we don't. I am not saying they are right on segregating, but you don't have to think to hard to know that events of unwanted advances happen. The premise is safety for the Muslim argument. Not debating right or wrong, i am pointing out it is about safety and religion is the supporting argument to achieve it. Accommodating is part of that process in a publicly funded building. There has to be certain level of accommodation for all religion/disabilities/and other specifications for a public building. I do not think it is excessive as long as it is not in peak hours.
We have veered off topic. This is how my brain works most days. I do think it is causation, by way of this, it includes many variables not just one (like education), and this (specifically when he talks about his family history) Thought experiment: A) What happens when you limit resources between two animals/countries/states/partners etc? Would a normally homeostatic environment become highly competitive and lead to aggression and mistrust? If you were to subvert a person/group/region/religion/etc... Would you start with levels of pay and education? Throughout history the lowest groups had their majority of people known to be illiterate, low paid, segregated from the middle and upper class, highly regulated and taxed comparable to income, and had a poor level of health care and probably family dynamics. If your going to hire a rocket scientist you don't hire a middle school drop out. You are creating an environment for failure, and it works too well. I am saying reduced levels of violence, not a 'fix'. One component among many that need to change. This happens outside the inner city enough also, especially in the bible belt and rural areas.
>If we don't discriminate against individual blacks, even though they have a higher violent crime rate as a group
This will sound extreme but this almost sounds like the equivalent to what was said... Are you violent because you are black, or are you black because you are violent. The statement from your post is labeling a color as equal to type of behavior, it is an oversimplification of a greater inefficiency with our system. If you jeer at something/someone, does it get mad? Are you getting the reaction you were expected by doing that? And does that mean that the jeering had nothing to do with the 'temperament' of a person and it is 'just the way they are'? Elevated levels of testosterone (a chemical) when coupled with a environment of the opposite sex (limited resources) will produce a statistical response (relevant enough to bring notice) towards the safety of its members. One way to relieve this is segregation (i don't agree), but i see the point of why a belief system would adopt this. Is it something a private business should do? That is up to them. Should a public building do this? As long as they do not do it during peak hours, it is limited, and they accommodate with minimal ability that it does not become a burden to the taxpayers (such as building on to the facilities when space can be provided as it currently is). We support kids swim, do we need to take that away because they aren't our age?
I do not believe you meant it the way i framed the violence correlated with African Americans comment. I just wanted to frame it to show the logic as being oversimplified for other factors that are well within our means to help alleviate. And is also a reason why we don't discriminate towards them or other races/religions.
aside: Really good talk on data visualization, and how it alters our perspectives- the FB part was hilarious
Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell
Outliers: The Story of Success
http://www.amazon.com/Outliers-Story-Success-Malcolm-Gladwell/dp/0316017930/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1375744973&sr=8-2&keywords=gladwell
Its not a self help book on success but tells a bunch of short stories on how the most successful people achieved their success. Great book, changed my outlook on life.
I'll be watching this thread closely as it's a question I'm very, very interested in hearing the answer to as well. Personally, I have yet to read very many books that would fall into the remit of self help/self improvement, but I have a couple of suggestions.
First of all, Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell is an excellent book, and particularly ideal for someone in your situation. Using plenty of real-world examples and citing studies, statistics etc throughout the book to substantiate his claims, he shows how & why some people go on to become hugely successful in their field and why others don't, covering a wide range of factors but consistently challenging our preconceived notions about the role that actual talent & ability play in getting people to the top. A very inspiring and motivating book, and I think it would make a great start if you want to embark on a path of self-improvement, as it will leave you feeling very optimistic and boost your self-esteem and make your goals, no matter how crazy, seem attainable.
Secondly, I'd recommend A Manual for Living by Epictetus with this modern translation/interpretation. This is only a small handbook, and can easily be read in a weekend, but unlike a lot of self-help books around this subject, this cuts straight to the point with practical suggestions explaining how and where stoic philosophy can apply in your day-to-day life to make you more resilient, optimistic, happier & content. This book really packs a punch in its content, and I found myself absolutely absorbed by it, and I've read it several times since and have found that the principles truly do work when actively applying them to my life. This, imo, would be a great start to self-improvement, as it addresses the fundamental issue that everyone on the planet would want to improve on - how to be happy.
When when this is infinitely better?
10,000 Hours. :) If you haven't read Outliers I think you would enjoy it. I think you are well on your way, my friend.
Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell. The book is a great because it breaks down success to bare bones numbers. It basically gives you exact reasons why certain people have succeeded and others have failed. Not because of lack of talent or money but several other things that shape you and how successful a person is.
It is a great way to make yourself feel better because Gladwell explains that there aren't 1 in a million shots... it takes work along with some luck to be successful.
I argue that it's just plain immoral to crave that level of luxury while many people in the world don't even have running water. We could get all high-minded and call it "antisocial" or "unethical" if you want, but I like "douchebag".
Becoming a multi-multi-millionaire is not the result of hard work. It takes fortune and luck. It takes being in the right place at the right time.
I'm all over the place, I have a few books in progress.
Jitterbug Perfume - Tom Robbins
Packing for Mars - Mary Roach
Freakonomics - Levitt & Dubner
Outliers: The Story of Success - Malcolm Gladwell
Relevant.
https://www.amazon.com/Outliers-Story-Success-Malcolm-Gladwell/dp/0316017930/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1500262824&sr=8-1&keywords=outliers+book
> Many people think of artistic ability as something intrinsic...you either have it or you don't. I personally don't believe this one bit. Just like anything else, it comes very naturally to some and others have work a lot harder at it.
Malcolm Gladwell wrote a whole book disputing that notion. It's called "Outliers: The Story of Success". He says that what we call "talent" comes from over 10,000 of work. Some dispute his thesis, but I think it has a lot of merit.
Also check out one of his books, Outliers: http://www.amazon.com/Outliers-Story-Success-Malcolm-Gladwell/dp/0316017930
Read Malcom Gladwell's book, Outliers: The Story of Success.
Basically, he argues that people who are truly, exceptionally great musicians, artists, athletes, scientists, businesspeople, get there through three factors:
All three factors are important, none of them exist in a vacuum, and none of them are guarantees of success. There were thousands of four-piece rock bands in the 60s, there were plenty of extremely talented singers and musicians, and plenty of bands played thousands of hours in garages and bars. Only a tiny handful of them ever became stars, and only one of them became the Beatles.
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But aside from the factors behind success, are you planning on playing guitar, or Street Fighter, or Magic the Gathering professionally? Or do you do those things because you enjoy them? If you're having fun doing things you love, what does it matter if you're the best at any one thing? There's something to be said for being well-rounded and having a variety of interests and skills.
Not many people play games for a living, and not many musicians can pay the bills with their guitar. My advice? Find a profession you don't hate that pays well and isn't going to be automated out of existence in the next twenty years, get the education and training you need to succeed at that profession, and put in the time to make a career.
Keep playing the guitar and fighting games and card games, and you'll naturally get better at those things. But don't base your happiness and self-worth on whether or not you're the best.
Actually, he would be Bill Gates if he had access to computers as a child and could challenge himself 24/7 by coding on a computer, and if he just happened to be born in the right era so he was able to do this and was presented with the right opportunities that others were not.
Source.
Bill Gates is definitely an outlier. I am not saying I have that kind of potential. I wish I did sometimes.
By the way, have you read Outliers: The Story of Success?
I commend you for putting your foot down. This book is kinda amazing. This book is kinda funny. This book is kinda deep.
:) good share!
I like to think about Malcolm Gladwell's book "Outliers: The Story of Success" when I think about making a mistake.
The gist of the book for me is that it takes putting in 10,000 hours and making 2,000 different mistakes in order to truly master a given field. So making a mistake means I'm moving forward, if I can learn from the mistake. (Some days this is of more comfort than others, if you know what I mean. ;))
Start With Why [Simon Sinek]
48 Laws of Power [Robert Greene] (33 Strategies of War, Art of Seduction)
The 50th Law [Curtis James Jackson]
Tipping Point:How Little Things Can Make a Difference and Outliers: The story of Succes [Malcolm Gladwell]
The Obstacle is the Way, Ego is the Enemy [Ryan Holiday] (stoicism)
[Tim Ferris] (actually haven't read any of his books, but seems to know a way to use social media, podcast, youtube)
Get an understanding to finance, economics, marketing, investing [Graham, Buffet], philosophy [Jordan Peterson]
I like to think us/you/business is about personal development, consciousness, observing recognizable patterns in human behavior and historical significance. It's an understanding of vast areas of subjects that connect and intertwine then returns back to the first book you’ve read (Start with Why) and learn what you've read past to present. Business is spectacular, so is golf.
To Add:
Irrationally Predictable:The Hidden Forces that Shape Our Decisions - [Dan Ariely] (marketing)
The Hard Things About Hard Things - [Ben Horowitz] (business management)
Black Privilege: Opportunity Comes to Those Who Create It - [Charlamagne Tha God] (motivation)
The Lean Startup: Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses - [Eric Ries]
Zero to One: Notes on Startups, How to Build the Future - [Peter Theil]
Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell.
>In Outliers, Gladwell examines the factors that contribute to high levels of success. To support his thesis, he examines the causes of why the majority of Canadian ice hockey players are born in the first few months of the calendar year, how Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates achieved his extreme wealth, how The Beatles became one of the most successful musical acts in human history, how Joseph Flom built Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom into one of the most successful law firms in the world, how cultural differences play a large part in perceived intelligence and rational decision making, and how two people with exceptional intelligence, Christopher Langan and J. Robert Oppenheimer, end up with such vastly different fortunes. Throughout the publication, Gladwell repeatedly mentions the "10,000-Hour Rule", claiming that the key to success in any field is, to a large extent, a matter of practicing a specific task for a total of around 10,000 hours.
It was SUPER interesting to see what experiences/situations led to people becoming successful. It was an interesting read to see how IQ or money don't always mean success but that sometimes it takes being born during a certain year in a certain town.
I applied for jobs like crazy over the last 2 months of my senior year. I mostly used my school's online job board. I read and watched a bunch of interview prep stuff and had multiple interviews which allowed me to practice. I got pretty damn good at interviewing, if I do say so myself.
I just ordered this book. Haven't gotten around to reading it yet though lol.
No significant plans coming up right now.
Grilled chicken, fresh mozzarella and roasted red peppers with a little balsamic vinegar... mmmmm
Here, have a book about this -
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outliers_(book)
https://www.amazon.com/Outliers-Story-Success-Malcolm-Gladwell/dp/0316017930
Here's a great podcast with a compelling counterargument:
How Scarcity Trap Affects Our Thinking, Behavior
TL;DL: we become irrational decision makers in times of economic or emotional scarcity.
Here's a great book that argues that there are many ingredients beyond aptitude which contribute to success:
Outliers
Take a look through the Amazon comments to see the books strengths and faults.
There are countless people who have defeated adversity and have gone on to lead successful lives (success by the way doesn't need to be defined as becoming wealthy).
We were all born with potential talents, skills and strengths, it's up to us to:
A.) find out what they are,
B) nurture and perfect them and
C) apply them with diligence and discipline
Most people don't suck at life, people that suck at life tend to project that onto everyone else to feel better about their own shortcomings.
Malcolm Gladwell's "Outliers" is a great read about success.
I implore you to read this, good sir. https://www.amazon.com/Outliers-Story-Success-Malcolm-Gladwell/dp/0316017930