Malcolm Gladwell's "Outliers"

By Michael Hobbes & Peter Shamshiri

If Books Could Kill

10/11/22·50m 6s

In "Outliers," Malcolm Gladwell posited that it takes 10,000 hours of practice to become an expert in something. Mike and Peter prove him wrong by mastering his dumb book over the span of about 50 minutes.

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