Book · 2008 · Business & Economics
Outliers
The Story of Success
Why people recommend it
Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell is a bestselling nonfiction book that investigates the hidden factors, cultural legacies, and environmental advantages that contribute to extraordinary success. The book is frequently referenced across popular podcasts to explain high achievement and societal patterns. On The Joe Rogan Experience, host Joe Rogan repeatedly recommended the book, highlighting its famous exploration of the ten-thousand-hour rule through the early experiences of the Beatles playing extensive residencies in Hamburg. Rogan also pointed to chapters examining how access to specific resources shapes incredible success stories and how cultural heritages influence behavior, such as historical patterns of violence among Appalachian herders. During an episode of No Stupid Questions, Angela Duckworth referenced Outliers alongside Gladwell's other bestselling titles while discussing what makes ideas compelling. On All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg, Jason Calacanis discussed concepts related to institutional selection and student performance akin to Gladwell's sociological inquiries. Furthermore, an appearance on StarTalk Radio with Neil deGrasse Tyson celebrated the book's lasting cultural footprint. Listeners and hosts continue to return to Outliers because it fundamentally challenges traditional notions of purely individual merit, urging readers to examine the structural and circumstantial foundations of greatness.
Who recommended it
- Joe Rogan Recommended
Joe Rogan — 1 mention
“Do you ever had Malcolm Gladwell's outliers? No. Well, one of the things it talks about is just talks about, it's great book. And one of the things in the book, it talks about why something became extraordinary.”
Mentioned on the show without a named speaker — 31
“uh Goliath outliers Tipping Point”
“Adam Grant writes about Malcolm Gladwell, who's the well-known author of many New York Times bestsellers like 'David and Goliath,' 'Tipping Point,' and 'Outliers.'”
“I believe, and so it's even... didn't Malcolm... didn't Malcolm Gladwell write something which was roughly the equivalent of like you're better off getting the top 10 student at a non-Ivy versus like the 50th student at an Ivy or something? I don't know; there was like something like maybe it was like a chapter?”
“Have you read malcolm gladwell's outliers? Yes. well that is like an amazing example of that like having a golf club in your hand at two years old”
“I'm actually rereading that book right now that malcolm gladwell book outliers that talks about that 10 000 hours principle it totally applies to what you did 100”
“I'm in the middle of rereading malcolm gladwell's book outliers and there's a part of that about conflicts in the south and honor cultures”
“Did you ever read the um did you ever read Malcolm gladwell's outliers? no but I've heard you talk about it It's a great book and one of the chapters in the book is about the Beatles”
“it's the things like if you uh read like Malcolm gladwell's uh the outliers one of the things that he'll talk about with like certain incredible success stories It's like the access that they had to all these different things that could help them”
“and malcolm gladwell's outliers talks about this with professional hockey players”
“Do you ever read uh malcolm gladwell do you ever read uh outliers”
“and you know uh Malcolm Gladwell wrote about people that live in the Appalachians and some of the the insane violence that took place there and he said there's a direct connection between the type of people that move there because they were herders and herders unlike Farmers had to protect their animals”
“I think it's a numbers thing I really do I think it's like what you know in the Malcolm Gladwell book about the Beatles when they played in hurg the thousands of hours thousands of hours thousands of shows listen”
“it's detailed in the book The outliers Right Is it the outliers There's uh there's a book outliers Yeah that they talk about how when the beatles emerged people don't realize they had so many hours of playing and it's one of the reasons why they're so good”
“Now, Malcolm Gladwell wrote that book, I think it's called Outliers, where he says if you spend 10,000 hours doing something, you become an expert.”
“Yeah, like if you read Malcolm Gladwell's book, 'The Outliers,' you know? I bought it, I haven't read it, but I do have it.”
“That's not the name of the book. No that was Outliers my book got Outliers. I always remind somebody to kind of that would probably be that.”
“I also am grateful to have done it in a time when you could get your Gladwell 10,000 hours in anonymously. You know, if you did a crappy direct-to-DVD movie just for kicks, I’m looking at you for anyone who knows this.”
“you know ten thousand hours of practice Malcolm Gladwell says and then we call them the best in the world”
“yeah outliers you know the classics”
“The Sports Gene was popularized by Gladwell in his book Outliers.”
“We've written about it in a couple of our books Malcolm gladwell's written about it a ton I think the most common example may be in sports”
“I'm gonna have to have a discussion with my nine-year-old about this because we were talking about how Malcolm gladwell's book posits that if you name your kid winner he's going to wind up being a loser”
“I remember reading Malcolm Gladwell's Outliers, and it was like you've got to have 10,000 hours to even be considered an expert.”
“you don't realize how many fingerprints malcolm gladwell has left on our society in profound ways in books like the tipping point and outliers”
“he wrote outliers... that that book is amazing what talks about the Beatles and know the beat like people think the Beatles came out of nowhere those [ __ ] did thousands and thousands of shows that's what's up it's just numbers”
“I really like him I love is well I love outliers oh there's Malcolm yeah I love that too He was on recently - He was on much more recently He was on like double weeks ago but Pinker's excellent He's just his work enlightenment now Yes Yes yeah he gets massive pushback on that That's what's interesting because he's”
“well because you know I've written books that begin in a sense of with a sense of wonder or curiosity or aw hell ours is a book about you know I'm in awe of the success of certain people I want to make sense of it”
“I was listening to this Malcolm Gladwell book on tape it's called outliers and they got into a part about the Beatles”
“like there's like even certain instances that you could read about there was a Japanese airline a few years back that had a terrible terrible incident that happened where the for the pilot planning to commit suicide and kill everybody on the plane... I don't know how they found this out but I think it said even in a book...”
“you know you got Malcolm Gladwell you got you know Steve Jobs you got the Beatles you spend a lot of time doing something you will get really good at it”
“as far as they say they say that what was that book that by Malcolm Gladwell where like wherever you're from has to do with how you react to a front”