2nd - “Outliers” by Malcolm Gladwell

As we said before, “Outliers” by bestseller author Malcolm Gladwell is a book about success. Gladwell brings in the point of the 10,000 hours-rule that says to be really good – or successful- in something it takes about 10,000 hours of exercise, of practice. Well, that’s a long time, for sure. But as Malcolm Gladwell is able to prove in his statistics it is a matter of fact that it always took people that long to really be successful. Bill Gates, in his school time was programming computers during about seven years which was in accumulation 10,000 hours. The amazing success of the Beatles was only possible because of their contract they had in a bar in Hamburg, Germany. When they arrived in Hamburg they were only one of hundreds of unknown bands. But part of the Hamburg-contract was that they had to play eight hours, seven days a week. Only because of this high number of hours they were playing- exercising- they reached the goal of a 10,000 hour training.