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My grandmother was a remarkable woman. 我的祖母是一个很了不起的女人。 But it is important to remember that a steady upward path upon which the Fords embarked began with a morally complicated act. 但更重要的是,与福特家事业稳
When he ran for governor of Florida, 在竞选佛罗里达州州长的时候, he repeatedly referred to himself as a self-made man, 杰布布什一再声称自己是白手起家者。 and it is a measure of how deeply we associate success with the
The air was filled with cigar smoke 空气中混杂着各种气味: and the smell champagne and sweat-soaked hockey gear. 雪茄的烟味、香槟的酒味以及曲棍球鞋的汗味。 On the wall was a hand painted banner: 其中一面墙上挂着手
That's how we think about math.We assume that being good at things like calculus and algebra is a simple function of how smart you are. 也揭示了我们对数学的看法。我们假设,依据微积分和代数成绩就可以辨别一个人是否足
And, most of all, it's autonomous. 重要的是,大多数的农民是有自主权的, The peasants of Europe worked essentially as low-paid slaves of an aristocratic landlord, with little control over their own destinies. 在欧洲的农民只能从
But he didn't start out an outlier. He started out just a little bit better. 但他并不是一开始就是一个出类拔萃的人,他起初只不过比他人稍强一点罢了。 The second implication of the hockey example is that the systems we
It's hard for a five-year-old to keep up with a child born many months earlier. 理由是,对一个5岁的孩子来说,他很难和比他早几个月出生的孩子相处。 But most parents, one suspects, think that whatever disadvantage a young
European soccer, similarly, is organized like hockey and baseball, 欧洲足球的组织模式和曲棍球、棒球的模式非常相似, and the birth-date distributions in that sport are heavily skewed as well. 球员的出生日期呈现出一边倒
It was a kind of an amazing thing. 想起来真让人难以置信。 It was an amazing thing, of course, because this was 1968. 这是一件令人难以置信的事,确实如此,因为这是在1968年。 Most colleges didn't have computer clubs i
That late-born prodigy doesn't get chosen for the all-star team as an eight-year-old because he's too small. 那些虽然满了8岁,但出生较晚的天才,之所以没能选进明星球队,是因为他们年龄偏小了。 So he doesn't get t
Gates was now in his senior year, 此时,盖茨已经是高年级学生, and somehow he managed to convinced his teachers to let him decamp for Bonneville under the guise of an independent study project. 也不知道用了什么办法,他成功地
After protracted negotiations, it was agreed Robert will be put on probation.经过长期谈判,终于答应继续试用罗伯特。 Chris Langan's mother was from San Francisco and was estranged from her family. 克里斯.兰根的母亲出生于旧
Here he was, a man with a one-in-a-million mind, and he had yet to make any impact on the world. 而他,是一个目前依旧影响着世界的人,一个拥有独一无二的智商的人。 He wasn't holding forth at academic conferences. He wasn
Today, Chris Langan lives in rural Missouri on a horse farm. 如今,克里斯兰根生活在密苏里州乡下的一个养马农场。 He moved there a few years ago, after he got married. 多年以前,他在结婚之后便搬到了这里。 He's
There is something beautiful in the subtlety of that exchange, in the attention that each party must pay to the motivations and desires of the other. 这段对话的精彩之处就在于它蕴涵的意思非常微妙,双方都需要注意对方言谈
Chapter Eight Rice Paddies and Math Tests 第八章 稻谷种植与数学测试 NO ONE WHO CAN RISE BEFORE DAWN 360 DAYS A YEAR FAILS TO MAKE HIS FAMILY RICH. 早起的鸟有食吃 The gateway to the industrial heartland of Southern China runs up thr
Rice has been cultivated in China for thousands of years. 在中国,种植水稻的历史已有数千年。 It was from China that the techniques of rice cultivation spread throughout east Asia-Japan, Korea, Singapore, and Taiwan. 随后,东亚地区
How could that be a bad bargain? 而这种条件互换在什么情况下会失败呢? Everything we have learned in Outliers says that success follows a predictable course. 在这本书中,所有我们看到的成功都是有迹可循, It's not
The beginning is hard, he went on. By the end of the day, they are restless. Part of it is endurance, part of it is motivation. 一开始很难,他继续说:他们一整天都坐立不安。因为他们缺乏耐力和动力, Part of it is incen
But in western agriculture, the opposite is true. Unless the field is that left fallow every few years, the soil becomes exhausted. Every winter, fields are empty. 但是在西方的农作习惯中,情况刚好相反。每隔几年土地就得闲置一