In What Malcolm Gladwell Should Have Told You In 'Outliers,' Glen Allsopp says that while he's a huge fan of Outliers, he has one problem with it. Namely, that Gladwell tends to define success as a large bank balance or some form of status. Glen says: "While Bill Gates spent years behind a computer screen, people his age where going to parties, sunning on the beach, meeting new people and making the most of life...yet he has made it. While kids were playing the violin for hours every week, their friends were playing in the park, running through fields and making the most of their childhood. Yet now the violinists are professional or well known...they've made it."



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Success Is For Suckers

In What Malcolm Gladwell Should Have Told You In 'Outliers,' Glen Allsopp says that while he's a huge fan of Outliers, he has one problem with it. Namely, that Gladwell tends to define success as a large bank balance or some form of status. Glen says:

"While Bill Gates spent years behind a computer screen, people his age where going to parties, sunning on the beach, meeting new people and making the most of life...yet he has made it.

While kids were playing the violin for hours every week, their friends were playing in the park, running through fields and making the most of their childhood. Yet now the violinists are professional or well known...they've made it."- Read more
 
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  • IsabelleIsabelle

    Posted on : Sat., 19-Dec-2009

    Hmm... not sure I want to place myself as only an average or mediocre person, even though I am in that stage right now. I want to be above average with the expertise and talents I have. Don't waste your talents. Stay mediocre and be happy with it if you indeed have no talents to be explored.

  • Tristanrocco_AlexanderTristanrocco_Alexander

    Posted on : Sat., 19-Dec-2009

    The parameter of success is relative. Very individual, even though there is certainly a general measurement of what success is. We live in this material world anyway. <br />
    However, mediocrity is such a waste for people who have talents and can use them to create better life to the others. <br />
    Agree with you Isabelle, don't stop at only mediocrity. As long as you are capable.

  • Sparks Noire Butterfly Sparks Noire Butterfly

    Posted on : Sat., 19-Dec-2009

    mmm... i think the one who says success if for suckers is indeed the sucker himself.... ;)

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