Outliers

Are Experts Born or Made?

David Z. Hambrick | Posted 05.01.2012

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David Z. Hambrick

Experts are born because people come into the world differing in ways that turn out to matter for real-world achievement. But experts are made because there is no getting around the necessity of a long period of practice and training for reaching a high level of performance.

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Mozart, Newton and You?

Lisa Randall | Posted 03.05.2012

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Lisa Randall

Creativity is essential to particle physics, cosmology, mathematics, and to other fields of science, just as it is to its more widely acknowledged beneficiaries -- the arts and humanities.

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Where I Like To Read

Malcolm Gladwell | Posted 01.04.2012

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Malcolm Gladwell

My favorite place to read is airplanes.

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Still Time to Vote: Chatting With Atlantic Records & Rolling Stone Contest Finalists Lelia Broussard and The Sheepdogs

Mike Ragogna | Posted 08.26.2011

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Mike Ragogna

Lelia Broussard and Ewan Currie of The Sheepdogs are the finalists in a contest sponsored by Garnier Fructis where the winner gets a contract with Atlantic Records and the cover of Rolling Stone.

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Gladwell's Views on Entrepreneurs

Howard Steven Friedman | Posted 05.31.2011

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Howard Steven Friedman

How often do we avoid taking an action out of the fear of other people's opinions of our failure? Innovators are better at identifying the true risk of a situation and are more willing to fail than others.

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Election Forecasting 'Outliers'

Huffington Post | Emily Swanson & Brad Shannon | Posted 05.25.2011

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Doug Usher thinks 2010 could be worse than 1994 for Democrats. Patrick Ottenhoff points to an Obama-Reagan parallel on approval and unemployment. Mi...

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Chart Confusion 'Outliers'

Emily Swanson | Posted 05.25.2011

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Emily Swanson

Sam Stein says President Obama has spent more on polling than President Bush. Nate Silver questions a DCCC memo on whether the Democrats can lose th...

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Amazon Tracks Most Highlighted Kindle Passages: Interesting Data Or Invasion Of Privacy?

Christian Science Monitor | Rebekah Denn | Posted 05.25.2011

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Tracking bestselling books tells us about the reading habits, or at least buying habits, of the American public. But is there anything we can learn fr...

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In God We...Invest

Jeff Schweitzer | Posted 05.25.2011

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Jeff Schweitzer

Wall Street is our secular religion. As with more traditional beliefs, faith trumps reason. That explains our willful blindness to the obvious scam, the fantastic story told to us by billionaire bankers.

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Culture Zohn: Dancing With the Outliers

Patricia Zohn | Posted 05.25.2011

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Patricia Zohn

2010-05-17-outsidepull.jpg Wayne McGregor, an outlier himself, wants bodies to "misbehave." This energetic, sexy ballet, informed by architecture, shows how.

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Malcolm Gladwell and the Case For Endless Self-Googling

David Quigg | Posted 05.25.2011

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David Quigg

I piled cringe upon cringe Friday -- first because I read Steven Pinker's vivisection of Malcolm Gladwell's new collection, second because of what I found when I Googled a flub Pinker wielded against Gladwell.

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What Makes the Great Ones Great?

Dr. Jim Taylor | Posted 05.25.2011

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Dr. Jim Taylor

In my work with athletes, I've been able to identify the five most important psychological qualities that distinguish the Wayne Gretzkys and the Candace Parkers from the rest of us.

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Malcolm Gladwell's "What The Dog Saw"

The New York Times | STEVEN PINKER | Posted 05.25.2011

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Fortunately for "What the Dog Saw," the essay format is a better showcase for Gladwell's talents, because the constraints of length and editors yield ...

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Stephen Colbert Questions Malcolm Gladwell On His Quest For Connections (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011

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Malcolm Gladwell was on "The Colbert Report" last night talking about his new book, "What the Dog Saw". He and Stephen discussed his never-ending curi...

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The Zen of Dating

Michael Sigman | Posted 11.17.2011

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Michael Sigman

Before God created match.com, single people used to get fixed up by their friends. That way, in addition to romantic disappointment when it didn't work out, you could be mad at your friend too.

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Outliers and the Hillbilly Sterotype

Don McNay | Posted 05.25.2011

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Don McNay

I would like to see Malcolm Gladwell test his theory about Southerners being more prone to violence than Northerners.

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Culture Builds Character and Connections

Danny Groner | Posted 11.17.2011

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Danny Groner

Gladwell discusses the factors that helped some of the most successful people achieve what they have. He posits that nurture matters exceedingly more than nature.

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