Comments on: But Can Malcolm Gladwell Explain the Barack Obama Phenomenon ? http://thewarriorlawyer.com/2008/11/23/but-can-malcolm-gladwell-explain-the-brack-obama-phenomenon/ Lawyer in the Philippines Tue, 02 Mar 2010 07:59:23 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Butter http://thewarriorlawyer.com/2008/11/23/but-can-malcolm-gladwell-explain-the-brack-obama-phenomenon/comment-page-1/#comment-53181 Butter Fri, 08 May 2009 09:18:46 +0000 http://thewarriorlawyer.com/?p=1063#comment-53181 Gladwell should start by explaining what he meant by saying that at age 11 Mozart was producing garbage. Because I wasnt aware that at age 8 Mozart was producing garbage, take Symphony No. 1 in E flat major as an example. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hL0bBPMH8qg Does Dr Phil with an Afro Gladwell hate Mozart because he was Austrian? Or does he really believe that Mozart was producing garbage at 11? Gladwell should start by explaining what he meant by saying that at age 11 Mozart was producing garbage.

Because I wasnt aware that at age 8 Mozart was producing garbage, take Symphony No. 1 in E flat major as an example.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hL0bBPMH8qg

Does Dr Phil with an Afro Gladwell hate Mozart because he was Austrian? Or does he really believe that Mozart was producing garbage at 11?

]]> By: kay http://thewarriorlawyer.com/2008/11/23/but-can-malcolm-gladwell-explain-the-brack-obama-phenomenon/comment-page-1/#comment-42264 kay Sat, 03 Jan 2009 08:37:36 +0000 http://thewarriorlawyer.com/?p=1063#comment-42264 While Barack Obama may not fit in the 10,000 rule, and grew up in essentially a single parent household, he is every inch a Gladwell outlier. He is smart, yes, but as Gladwell wrote, genius is not enough. You should have the support of your family, culture, and friends to be successful. Because his mother was an anthropologist/academic, his intelligence was further honed through her dedicated tutorial of the young Barack when he was growing up in Indonesia. His grandparents also found a way to make sure he would study in an elite high school, not in any of Hawaii's pathetic public schools. He didn't make it just "through his own grit, intelligence, ambition and sense of destiny." If his mother wasn't an academic and his grandparents didn't value education, I doubt even his ambitions would even bring him this far. While Barack Obama may not fit in the 10,000 rule, and grew up in essentially a single parent household, he is every inch a Gladwell outlier. He is smart, yes, but as Gladwell wrote, genius is not enough. You should have the support of your family, culture, and friends to be successful. Because his mother was an anthropologist/academic, his intelligence was further honed through her dedicated tutorial of the young Barack when he was growing up in Indonesia. His grandparents also found a way to make sure he would study in an elite high school, not in any of Hawaii’s pathetic public schools. He didn’t make it just “through his own grit, intelligence, ambition and sense of destiny.” If his mother wasn’t an academic and his grandparents didn’t value education, I doubt even his ambitions would even bring him this far.

]]> By: Garth Walker http://thewarriorlawyer.com/2008/11/23/but-can-malcolm-gladwell-explain-the-brack-obama-phenomenon/comment-page-1/#comment-39605 Garth Walker Wed, 26 Nov 2008 20:10:11 +0000 http://thewarriorlawyer.com/?p=1063#comment-39605 Aside from the 10000 hour rule, Barack Obama actually meets every criteria outside of that one requirement. He is an outlier in the sense that he is an Afircan American raised atypically from the normal african american experience. Also the timing could not have been better for many of his rise to success. Gaining the senate due to disqualification, key note speakerm advantage of the internetfor campaigning. All factors that are dependent on timing and opportunity. Yes he is very smart but we are talking about a time that US promotes change and tired of conventional politics so it is not totally out of wack that the choice would be of someone with less than 10000 hours of conventional politics. Aside from the 10000 hour rule, Barack Obama actually meets every criteria outside of that one requirement. He is an outlier in the sense that he is an Afircan American raised atypically from the normal african american experience. Also the timing could not have been better for many of his rise to success. Gaining the senate due to disqualification, key note speakerm advantage of the internetfor campaigning. All factors that are dependent on timing and opportunity. Yes he is very smart but we are talking about a time that US promotes change and tired of conventional politics so it is not totally out of wack that the choice would be of someone with less than 10000 hours of conventional politics.

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