hey this is going to be an animated book review of the book outliers by Malcolm
Gladwell ensure figure out why Asians are so good at math you'll have to wait
to the end he starts off the book by explaining that if you take a whole
bunch of hockey players and look at their birthdays
there's a pattern a pattern appears that the top of the top the best hockey
players are born in January February March and he goes into analysis and he
starts finding out that the reason for this is because we're here this will
explain in a little bit better right so you have months 123456789 10 11 12 and
then you start over
123456789 10 11 12 and then after this pattern for each grade of school there's
a cut off t if you were born before December you are in the earlier great
but if you're born after December were born into the next great and it was kind
of hard to explain but it's really easy but it's pretty cool once you understand
it he says that those born in the beginning of the year where towards the
end of the cut-off date that is they were actually 5678 almost a year older
than their counterparts who were in earlier dates he says that that those
couple extra months were viewed as talent it made those players stand out
because that they got extra training equipment extra gear when in reality
they're physical maturity was the thing that made them better hockey players in
there is actually a status than those born in later months
high school and college were more likely to attempt suicide and that's simply
because they weren't as good as skill and this this is the first big principle
that I kind of realized was that it does matter when you were born that depending
on which grade you get put into a few were the youngest or if you're the
oldest of your class you were going to be selected in your going to be better
or worse than the rest of your class the second principle as something called the
10,000 hour rule
after now says a whole bunch of chess grandmasters and other people who were
really good at their craft when they realized is that it takes around 10,000
hours to become the best of the best in a truck when you start looking into it
you realize Mozart some of his early works weren't even outstanding they
weren't even a star machine so I like to view this as whenever you start
something whenever you start playing the piano are you starting a new instrument
or a new programming language don't expect to be good at it within the first
10 20 50 hours you have to put in the hours do you work really hard and
creating your craft and getting really good at it and this 10,000 hour rule can
be found in ice skaters fiction writers basketball players even master criminals
were gonna take for example bill gates that he was extraordinary when it came
to programming but the secret behind this was because in high school starting
at the eighth grade he had access to one of the world's newest computers and he's
found in during the summer during his summers he spent a lot of time
understanding have a programming language worked in fact the first seven
months and he was allowed to use it he spent over 1,500 hours in that works out
to around eight hours a day for seven days a week and for the next seven years
he practiced wave has 10,000 hours in this is worried he is so noted this
helped him create Microsoft literally that thousands of hours and hence taking
time he put into it helped him become wealthy in his skill and they also found
that the difference between well sorry and non wealthy parents is that wealthy
parents take their children and have them do stuff all the time they're
always busy they're always at soccer practice are always a violin practice
they are always practicing their skills and cultivating them to become better
and this is principal number to the 10,000 hour rule you wanna get good at
something you have to start putting in the time now principal number three was
a really cool I had kind of thought about it a little bit but was really
cool I'm gonna present these numbers to you
485 3976 and I want you to see them out loud or in your head around 20 seconds
for a 5397 6485
3976 try to memorize them you can possibly know if you need to know where
they found out was the students of the English language could remember about
50% of them or they can remember the entire sequence about half of the time
however Chinese students remember it almost every single time and this is
because to say the numbers for 853 9762 sub vocalize them in our throats there
are more syllables and you cannot say these numbers as quickly as you could
and Chinese it when he realizes that generally you have room two seconds of
them short term memory of remembering digits instance a Chinese can say these
numbers extremely fast they were they remember more of them in another little
thing is our number system the English number system 123456789 10 11 12 13 14
15 it's a little strange you would expect after 10 it would be something
like one teen as opposed to 11 or two team as opposed to 12 and this goes for
13 15 and other numbers like forty and six years kinda close but fifty you
would expect it to be 55433 teen China Japan and Korea they actually do this
more logically what they do is 11 is 10 112 is tend to animal a 24 is to tens
for in because their language is set up a little different
by the age of five american children are already a year behind their Asian
counterparts in this kind of gets into what I mentioned at the beginning of
Asians are generally the people of the aging culture are better at math so
principal number three is that language is important they're moving under
principle for so he explains little bit about what rice patties are and how
difficult they are to maintain the you must put into the work you must put in
he kinda mentions that 10,000 hour rule you really have to work at these rice
paddies in order to grow the rice and he says that the cloture the Asian culture
to grow these rice paddies
it work really hard and they understand that they need to work hard in order to
grow the rice paddies he says then the Western cultures in order to get more of
a yield in order to get more corn we just had to explain our technology but
the Asian culture says we don't necessarily need to expand our
technology we just need to work harder we need to put more work into it and
they found out that rights workers put around 3,000 hours a year in the hot Sun
in this kind of moves on to the main principle of principle and reform which
is they have this test is called the team's test in every four years they
give it to a whole buncha countries in a basically they balance the way it's and
see which countries really get a matter which country is really good at science
and what they found was that unless tested 220 questions which is it's
pretty extensive I mean questions you're going to get tired by the end of it and
that's the end of it they included a little questionnaire little survey to
ask simple questions such as what your favorite color or are you male or female
just little questions like that are questionnaires they didn't really have
you don't have to put much thought into it is hard to try and what they found
was that the correlation between the averages of the country's was that
questions answered on the questionnaire was exactly the same as the math scores
and they came up with the conclusion that mathematics isn't an innate ability
it's not something that you develop automatically it's in fact it's an
attitude is that the harder you try the better you Matthew are going to be and I
really like this principle in fact principal them before the idea that
something isn't an innate ability talent that you were born with that it is
actually an attitude that it is something that you can develop that you
can cultivate this is my favorite principal out of this book I have
mentioned four principles and I want you to leave a comment below telling me
what's your favorite principle is thanks for watching I hope you enjoyed watching
this video and I hope you learn something
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