Just finished The Drunkard’s Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives, by Leonard Mlodinow. This book really opened my mind to the idea that personal success is more a result of statistics than initiative. I’m not totally sure what to actually *do* with that information, other than to continue my own drunkard’s stumble through life and [...]
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The End of Horatio, part two
Posted in books on May 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The end of Horatio Alger
Posted in audiobook, tagged gladwell, outliers on May 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I just finished listening to Outliers by Malcom Gladwell while simulateously reading Drunkard’s Walk (more about that next entry.) The case against the hero stereotype – the person who makes it to the top because of exceptional brilliance, pluck, or talent – is neatly destroyed by Gladwell’s arguments. He takes some well know examples of extraordinary success, such [...]
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