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Outliers Chapters 1-2

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  • The private school Bill Gates attended in 7th grade.
    Lakeside School
  • The University where Bill Joy gained early computer access.
    University of Michigan
  • The key combination (3) Gladwell argues produces outliers.
    Ability + Opportunity + Arbitrary Advantage
  • The economic concept showing how small advantages grow over time.
    Compounding advantage
  • The estimated number of practice hours required to achieve mastery.
    10,000-Hour Rule
  • The Canadian hockey team Gladwell uses as evidence for birth-month trends.
    Medicine Hat Tigers
  • A specific eligibility date that creates age-based advantage.
    Arbitrary cutoff date
  • A system where success is based purely on ability and effort.
    Meritocracy
  • The company Bill Gates dropped out of Harvard to build.
    Microsoft
  • The month most elite Canadian hockey players are disproportionately born in.
    January
  • The pattern where those who gain early success receive increasing advantages over time.
    Matthew Effect
  • The shared factor connecting Gates, Joy, Allen, Ballmer, and Schmidt.
    Timing (Accept: Birth-year advantage)
  • The band that gained thousands of hours playing in Hamburg.
    The Beatles
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