November 24, 2008 - "Malcom Gladwell on his book Outliers and how and why people become successful"
Summary: Malcolm Gladwell, author of 'Blink' and 'The Tipping Point,' discusses his latest best-seller, 'Outliers,' and explains why Bill Gates, the Beatles and President-elect Barack Obama may have been more lucky than good. Hear what it takes to truly become successful, and why you need a combination of luck and skill.
- Bill Gates' success wasn't a complete function of his own merit. He was extremely luck in so far as he had extreme opportunity and luck available to him. In 1969, he has unlimited access as a teenager to a computer terminal that is available to less than a dozen other kids.
- It takes 10,000 hours of work in an area to gain the expertise to become great. That 10,000 hours takes roughly 10 years.
- Hear how Korean Air changed their culture to combat having one of the highest crash rates in the 1980s and early 90s.
- Hear one of Malcom Gladwell's ideas for education reform that is extremely simple and well explained.
