Reading notes, "The Alien" reveals the abilities you need to have in order to succeed

If you haven't heard of "The Outlier", you should note that although this book is about success, it is by no means a common success chicken soup book, on the contrary, "The Alien" refutes and debunks a lot of rotten chicken soup in the success science, and uses facts and figures to propose several very convincing reasons for success.

The author begins with a story, which is narrated in the first person below.

My cousin was a very different child from a young age. My mother told a very interesting little thing, at that time my cousin was also four or five years old, once my cousin was sick and went to the hospital for injections, my mother also accompanied my aunt and uncle to them together, my cousin was very brave when he was injected, the ninja did not cry in pain, and after the injection, he politely took the initiative to say: Thank you nurse aunt. But almost as soon as I left the injection room, my cousin immediately said to my mother: Auntie, can you buy me a bicycle? My mom said yes, why do you suddenly want a bicycle? My cousin said: I will use the bicycle to crush the nurse aunt to death and squeeze out the rice dumplings.

Hahaha, I was really shocked when I first heard this story!

A four- or five-year-old child not only thought of "punishing" the person who had just hurt him, but also thought clearly about a whole set of crime methods, crime tools, and the expected outcome after the crime. What is even more surprising is how to get the tools of the crime He also quickly found a feasible solution, he expected that his mother would not agree to buy him a bicycle, but the aunt returned from the United States, should not be so stingy and faceless, is a good breakthrough.

And the most amazing thing is that all this psychological activity in the injection room is not exposed at all, this child did not cry and make a fuss with the nurse like an ordinary bear child, but chose to be patient and quiet, and even politely said thank you, haha Many adults' city government and self-control are not so strong.

You may be mistaken here, the cousin did not grow into a cold-blooded serial killer, but became a very pleasant filial piety and affectionate young man.

If there is anything that can be seen from this story when I was a child, it is that my cousin is a very capable person.

In Gladwell's strange book The Alien, it is specifically said that the ability to pass the level is important for success.

Regarding the ability to pass the level, I remember two real cases in the book.

One is a genius with a superior IQ from childhood (a recorded national super IQ child), and later when he went to college, first because of a change in transportation arrangements, did not communicate with the teacher and did not find a replacement solution, directly missed class until he was expelled, and then he transferred to another university, and because he was a genius, he got a scholarship, but his mother forgot to fill out a form to extend the scholarship, and when he faced whether to continue after a year, the genius still did not communicate with the school and quit school on his own.

This is an extreme lack of "passing ability" case, there is no ability to pass, a person with a high IQ, in the end can only be a failure, this genius met the author, in a bar as a security guard.

Another case is also a person who has encountered difficulties during college, and it is a more serious difficulty. When this man went to college, he was expelled from the school for poisoning his teacher, but then he actually communicated and operated a bit, not only was he not punished by any law, but even his student status was saved! This man was the famous Oppenheimer, who later became the head of the American Atomic Bomb Project (Manhattan Project).

You see, how important is the ability to pass the level!