We're Weird Al fans, too! Glad you enjoyed seeing him, Pi3flavour. We loved interviewing him!

Thanks, silarydoveface! We love Gladwell's work and are happy to share it!

When I was a little kid, I always wanted to be a writer. I used to write stories from odd perspectives, particularly from animals, or even inanimate objects. I also had a powerful sense of empathy, often seeing people sad would make me cry. I tried to empathize with my characters, and make them real. Growing up, I did very poorly in school, and was generally a pain in the ass. As a result, I became the enemy of every teacher whose class I stepped into. Many teachers told me I should give up my dream, that I was simply "not good." Later on, having reached around 5000 hours of writing, I started to gain noticeable ground, in terms of mastery in the craft. My professors took notice, and so did those who read my stories early on. No doubt, I have always had some talent with the spoken, and written word. But Gladwell helped me realize that talent alone cannot bring you to creating a masterpiece. I am now just over 8000 hours, and still going. I have written over a thousand poems and lots of short stories. I have nearly completed my first novel, and I will admit, despite my reservations, that its quality is beyond myself. It is transcendence, ultimately, that defines an artist. For the inspiration Gladwell has given me, I have to give my thanks. Without the motivation of the 10 000 hour hypothesis, wrestling with the giants of fiction, like Faulkner, Dan Simmons, Hemmingway, or Joyce was daunting, and I often felt defeated before I even began competing. The real truth is, they probably wrote shit when they were young too. We read their masterpieces, and we see them as effortless, like the transmission from the ephemeral - vessels for the Muses. Those countless hours are veiled by their greatness, and they are just people too. Outliers may not be a perfect theory - but it is a glimpse into the quality that begets greatness. Wish me luck, as I draw close to the completion of my own masterpiece :)

@mendi3395

8 жыл бұрын

I wish you the best of luck!! I, for a while, had long time aspired to be a writer as well. Language arts and creative writing used to be my favorite subject in elementary and middle school.

@o0xemas0o

8 жыл бұрын

Em Cee Thank you sir! Hard work, only way to get it done. Chippin at the marble every day. Still writing then?

@mendi3395

8 жыл бұрын

Nah, not anymore. I'm in nursing school now and that pretty much squashed all motivation to be creative. I used to write so many short stories and novels extensively, but I never actually finished one! I would get stuck and think the story didn't deserve to be finished anymore.

@o0xemas0o

8 жыл бұрын

Em Cee Go pick up an old story and finish it! You might surprise yourself. I did this with a story I wrote as a teenager, and it was.. extremely bad - or at least very poorly written. But at its core, the story had merit. So I finished and polished it, and it's among my best pieces now.

@elyonxx

9 ай бұрын

​@@o0xemas0ohey it's been 8 years. Can you give an update:) i resonate alot with that paragraph you wrote.

This was a really wonderful video, thanks THNKR.

One more thing. You don't have to be young, or a kid, to start into something that makes you a master. You just have to have maintain a youthful energy about it. Don't expect too much too soon. Don't expect to break records tomorrow. Don't worry about any of that. When you find yourself doing the activity without thinking about tomorrow, then you know you're on the right track.

I read this a few months ago. I found it interesting and it sparked some good conversations. Nice idea.

This really is a phenomenal video.

OMG I had Joanne Ruthsatz for a Psych class freshman year! great video.

I'm gonna have to add this to my reading list

I just read this book, it pumped me up for a couple of weeks.... and then that feeling faded away...

I've played guitar and music for over seventeen years now. I'm 31. Been in bands, recorded albums, the whole thing. It definitely takes getting into something that is interesting to you, taking your time with it (not worrying about if you measure up to so and so) and surrounding yourself in the activity as you fall in love with it. Then, you wake up one day and you're playing Mozart, or breaking secret codes or whatever and you realize, "I am the best at what I do, in the entire world." Peace.

i love this channel

It makes me think about Taleb's book "the black swan". We naturally tend to minimize the context's influence on success and failures. And usually when we fail we are better at explaining why than when we succeed.

Talent is meaningless in comparison with desire. The rule of thumb is that hard work trumps talent 10 times out of 10. If you take an untalented athlete (Michael Jordan), who was kicked off of his HS basketball team because he was so bad, he can still become an outlier. And he did. Talent is most often a crutch that underachievers lean on instead of trying hard. In that way, talent is often a limitation.

Nice perspectives on the book. You sir; shall have my like. On a tangent, what is the name of the music starting from 0:08 seconds? It seems like it would be a good soundbyte for thinking/ideas.

it's ironic that the only academic there did not get the message of the book. Sad really

@williammann6198

6 жыл бұрын

These guys are all Libtards.

@atenglenon

5 жыл бұрын

At some point i agree.. But i don't know why she think like that.. too many literal parameter of her point of view or in other hand, text book minded?

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The logical extension of that woman's views is that genetic variance is responsible for failure or a lack of greatness. There's nothing wrong with striving for greatness.... I believe anyone can self-actualize.

Yo-yo Ma once responded to someone that asked him how he got so good. He said "If you knew how long I have practiced, you would not be impressed at all."

wow, ive had to refresh this page 5x just to watch this video POS YT

Mike Rugnetta!! Well now i wanna stay to see him..

@5:00 running a 6:00 minute mile is not so hard, but running a 4:30 is outstanding. I can run 6:00 minute miles any day.

Read it.

It would be interesting to see what THNKR's experts say about Robert Greene's book Mastery.

do outliers realize this is a commercial for a book?

that "never" really stuck

I think that it very easily skips over the part of opportunities. Or what I believe is possibilities, and if nothing else they are strongly connected. They make it seem that when someone doesn't excel, it's simply because they haven't tried hard enough. And of course tenaciousness and hard work has merit, don't misunderstand me, but they pretty much skip over social heritage as a factor.

i've read all his book.outliers is very practical..not some bs like the secret

read "the 4 hour work week"?

i saw him live years an d years and years ago funny guy

I can see your point but I think you completely missed the point. The people whom one can call a Great "whatever" have transcended "social heritage" to be come a master in whatever they have chosen. I think that would be included in the hard work and the drive to do what it is they do.

Check out Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood! It's an amazing dystopian book.

Anyone with legs, and some people without, can be trained to run a 6 minute mile.

On the one hand one should listen to these great people because they have intimate experience with what it means to put in 10000+ hours of work (esp. Ashely). On the other hand, they don't know what it's like to put in 10000+ hours and NOT become great. They might feel like everyone else, and think everyone else could do the same if they had the willpower, passion, motivation etc. that they have; but this might be untrue, and that's a *big* risk to take too.

Wow. That woman could convince a hungry person that eating is pointless.

Outliers is no different than any other self help book. One tends to read into it and take from it that which seems most applicable to them.

Hmm

I swear that women's opinion is exactly the reason why most people don't succeed. Why most people don't achieve .. because people become off putted by such comments.

Bill Clinton?? You got the "liar" part right....

Thumbs up if you only watched this coz it had Weird Al Yankovic in it!

Yeah, the story on Bill Gates is fascinating. I think we all have unique opportunities in our lives, and if we notice them we can take them! And the 10,000 rule is awesome!

Some one plz respond I need to talk about this. I'm an outlier I want to talk

Yes I am anoutlier. :D In fact I own anoutlier . com :D

She clearly believes hard in innate talent and won't let go of it. Which is fine, we don't really know the full story in the 10,000 hours, whether innate talent is still a big factor or not. But her 6-minute mile example paints her as someone who is WAY too stuck on innate talent determining what you can and can't do. The basketball example the other guy gave is much better.

I think these people are being too critical of MG and "Outliers." A lot of their arguments against him are straw men as he clearly states many times in the book that success is a combination of many things. He never makes the claim "I am 100% right and this is the way it is." He shares a lot of really interesting information and research that OTHER PEOPLE have done. The only thing he's been seriously wrong about is the broken window principle, and even that wasn't his own idea at all. He was going off of what was known at the time.

and then?!?!?!!?!?

what what?

Hey, he's Canadian . . . .eh?

The professor lady doesn't get it. The Bill Gates story makes sense - I don't know what her beef is

I think Joanne can run a 6 minute mile if she practices more.

weird al yankovic!!!!!!!!!!!!!

wrong book

??? O_o

No kidding, talk about a weak example. Even at her age she could probably train and run a six minute mile. She should have said a 4-minute mile. Saying a 6-minute mile makes her look like the world's biggest pessimist.

@bt8406

5 жыл бұрын

i was thinking how much of a pessimist she was, its interesting your had yet another example of that.

Like bill Clinton was where I checked out...

i saw him live years an d years and years ago funny guy