<P> Outliers : The Story of Success is the third non-fiction book written by Malcolm Gladwell and published by Little , Brown and Company on November 18 , 2008 . In Outliers , Gladwell examines the factors that contribute to high levels of success . To support his thesis , he examines 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 achieving world - class expertise in any skill , is , to a large extent , a matter of practicing the correct way , for a total of around 10,000 hours , though the authors of the original study this was based on have disputed Gladwell 's usage . </P>
<P> Outliers : The Story of Success is the third non-fiction book written by Malcolm Gladwell and published by Little , Brown and Company on November 18 , 2008 . In Outliers , Gladwell examines the factors that contribute to high levels of success . To support his thesis , he examines 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 achieving world - class expertise in any skill , is , to a large extent , a matter of practicing the correct way , for a total of around 10,000 hours , though the authors of the original study this was based on have disputed Gladwell 's usage . </P>
who came up with the 10 000 hour rule
who came up with the 10 000 hour rule
Malcolm Gladwell
Malcolm Gladwell