Outliers
topic on 10 shows · 8 statements across 7 episodes · said 16 times in 13 episodes since 2018
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- How to Be More Successful Than 99% of People | Malcolm Gladwell
- Howard Marks: AI, Debt vs Equity & The Next 40 Years Of Investing | Nikhil Kamath | People by WTF · Nikhil Kamath
- Stop People Pleasing: How To Set Boundaries (And Say No) | Charlamagne Tha God
- Ray Kroc : How McDonald’s Took Over America
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- 20VC: Why This Is Just The Start for Consumer Mobile, 3 Lessons China Taught About How To Invest Better In The US & How To Think About The Opportunity Cost of Capital Deployment with Hans Tung, Managing Partner @ GGV Capital
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Gladwell: Every successful creator's peak moment in the zeitgeist passes
“Anyone who's in a creative field understands that you have a moment. If you're successful, you have a moment in the zeitgeist, and then the moment passes for everybody. You can't, I'm not always gonna sell as many books as I did with outliers. That was a momen…”
Charlamagne: Malcolm Gladwell no longer believes many ideas from Outliers
“I remember talking to Malcolm Gladwell one time, and Malcolm Gladwell said to me, you know, there's a lot of things that I wrote in books like The Outliers that I don't necessarily believe anymore.”
O'Shaughnessy: Creators and entrepreneurs must ignore base rates to achieve outliers
“I think, like, screw base rates. I don't care what the, I never care what the base rate is. Like, the whole, the most interesting stuff is outliers by definition. So I don't care what happened to everybody else. I don't care if, you know, there's common pitfal…”
Feder: Outlier venture returns often hide in poor market categories
“And the outliers can be in really poor ponds. And if you're just fishing in that one pond that you think it's the most robust, it's really, you can actually have zero outliers.”
Gurner: Not fitting in socially acts as a forcing function for outliers
“I think that they tend to be very quirky people as individuals, and I think it almost is a forcing function to pushing them where they end up going, right? Like if you're somebody who easily, I often wonder, and this is just my own theory, right? Like if you'r…”
Gurner: Outliers do not burn boats because they trust their adaptability
“I don't think that they see themselves burning boats, because I think that they see that no matter what happens, they'll figure it out. I don't think that they're gonna say, like, oh, I'm gonna lose it all if this happens. I think they'll say, well, I'll figur…”
Gassner: Outlier success requires pursuing ideas most people expect to fail
“You have to pick something that most people think is going to fail to be an outlier. Otherwise, by definition, you're picking something that most people think is going to work, and therefore a lot of people are picking it, therefore you're not an outlier.”