Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell

by xiaolai on 2008/12/16 · 18 comments

in 写清楚(系列), 看看电影, 英语相关文章, 随便想想

Malcolm Gladwell的《引爆流行》(The Tipping Point)对国内读者来说还算是比较熟悉的。他随后的书,包括《Blink》和新作《Outliers》因尚无译本而在国内少为人知。

上个月,Gladwell的新书《Outliers: The Story of Success》发行,我托正在美国出差的熊莹同学替我买一本回来。昨天拿到该书,今天送到复印社复印了几本“大字号版”自己看的同时,也给身边几个朋友散发(唉,算是一种盗版行为啊!惭愧。)而在Mininova上,已经可以找到这本书的Audible

Gladwell的牛逼之处不仅在于他总是能够“穿过表象看透实质”,还在于他总是能够通过他高超的调研能力找到令人惊喜的真实故事而后用曲折异常却又万分流畅的方式讲述出来……


到Thomas Sowell的专栏上看了看,发现索威尔先生对此书的评价也很高

… If enough people read and ponder the implications of “Outliers,” perhaps that can help begin the much needed process of turning around current counterproductive attitudes toward education and toward life.

又:把Sowell对Gladwell的评价讲给朋友听,结果朋友说:

是因为他们都叫什么well,所以搞内部团结,评价很高吗?

想起来叫什么well的还有另外一个人,George Orwell,就是Animal Farm和1984的作者。

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天方 December 16, 2008 at 12:17

哈哈,我到豆瓣和新浪读书上面找了几遍也没有找到,原来还没有译本啊,不过读原文更好。
原来mininova上面有audio book了?
谢谢笑来老师的信息

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沈蚊 December 16, 2008 at 12:23

Blink有译本,中文名《决断两秒间》

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老时 December 16, 2008 at 14:27

老时慕名钱来膜拜,很喜,订阅了。

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Eataix December 17, 2008 at 00:27

怎么感觉是换汤不换药?
Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years
中有几乎一致的描述

Researchers (Bloom (1985)Bryan & Harter (1899)Hayes (1989)Simmon & Chase (1973)) have shown it takes about ten years to develop expertise in any of a wide variety of areas, including chess playing, music composition, telegraph operation, painting, piano playing, swimming, tennis, and research in neuropsychology and topology. The key isdeliberative practice: not just doing it again and again, but challenging yourself with a task that is just beyond your current ability, trying it, analyzing your performance while and after doing it, and correcting any mistakes. Then repeat. And repeat again. There appear to be no real shortcuts: even Mozart, who was a musical prodigy at age 4, took 13 more years before he began to produce world-class music. In another genre, the Beatles seemed to burst onto the scene with a string of #1 hits and an appearance on the Ed Sullivan show in 1964. But they had been playing small clubs in Liverpool and Hamburg since 1957, and while they had mass appeal early on, their first great critical success,Sgt. Peppers, was released in 1967. A study of students at the Berlin Academy of compared the top, middle, and bottom third of the class and asked them how much they had practiced:
 

Google了一下,发现一篇类似的post,
http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2008/11/18.html

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李笑来 January 5, 2009 at 15:11

那是joel (joelonsoftware.com) 的看法。
joel的看法基于这样的假定:“只有科学家才能科普”、“只有传记作家才能讲故事”。
事实上,Gladwell确实没讲什么新东西,他甚至自己没做出什么惊人的研究——书中提到的所有研究都是“别的科学家”做的。但Gladwell的讲故事能力,以及把事儿说清楚的能力是joel不大可能具备的。
 
 

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guest January 15, 2009 at 20:53

谢谢笑来老师,连名字和邮件都为我这样的访客准备好了,谢谢~~

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xxxlr January 19, 2009 at 01:58

笑来老师,那本the story of success 我下载不了英文文本,您能不能给我发到邮箱里,真的很很很感谢,xxxlr@yahoo.cn

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李笑来 January 19, 2009 at 02:24

我也没有电子版。我买的是书。

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viphhs June 6, 2009 at 16:04

1、笑来提到的这几本,现在国内的卓越网就可以买到了:Malcolm Gladwell的这几本原版书。不用到国外带了,呵呵。需要的可以去看看。blink和outliers都有。
2、国内的中译本还没有。只有outliers中文版《异类:不一样的成功启示录》有,由中信出版社出版,和笑来的《把时间当作朋友》一样,目前只接受预订。

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apu June 14, 2009 at 14:41

卓越都不全,王府井新华书店就很全啊,不过就是稍贵点,卓越有个别原版书比王府井新华书店便宜。

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杨熙锟 July 2, 2009 at 19:43

outliers的中文版《异类:不一样的成功启示录》,翻译得很不好. Introduction部分就至少有4个句子完全译错了.

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杨熙锟 July 2, 2009 at 20:25

只看了前言和第一章第一节,完全翻译错误的句子至少就有7个,摘录如下:The death rate from all causes in Roseto, in fact, was 30 to 35 percent lower than expected.实际上,在30岁至35岁的罗赛托居民中,各种原因致死的死亡率,也远低于原先的预期。When Wolf had dieticians analyze the typical Rosetan’s eating habits,they found that a whopping 41 percent of their calories came from fat.当沃尔夫从营养学的角度分析罗赛托人的饮食习惯时,发现几乎有41%的食物都属于容易使人发胖的食物。They picked up on the particularegalitarian ethos of the community, which discouraged the wealthy from flaunting their success and helped the unsuccessful obscure their failures.他们了解到,在这里的社团,人人平等,社团鼓励那些富有的人士,抛开他们成功的虚浮的一面,去帮助那些非成功人士克服生活中的挫折。They had to appreciate the idea that the values of the world we inhabit and the people we surround ourselves with have a profound effect on who we are.他们应该对那些认识到我们所生活的世界,并对我们有着深刻影响的周围人群的价值观心存敬意。Canadian hockey is a meritocracy.加拿大的曲棍球汇聚了世界上最优秀的运动员。You can’t buy your way into Major Junior A hockey. Itdoesn’t matter who your father or mother is, or who yourgrandfather was, or what business your family is in. Nordoes it matter if you live in the most remote corner of themost northerly province in Canada.你自己也许无法“买通”通往曲棍球甲A联赛的道路,但你的父母能做到,你的祖父能做到,或者你的家族能做到,即使你生活在加拿大最北边省份最偏远的一个角落,都有可能“买通”这条道路。Success in hockey is based on individual merit—and both of those words are important.球员的成功取决于其个人的价值——对球员的相关评价自然就相当重要.还有一段居然出现了几句原文根本没有的内容:”青少年联赛又分成了四个级别。社区联赛(house leagues)主要是娱乐性质的比赛;青少年B级联赛是由加拿大乡下一些小球队参加的比赛;青少年A级联赛比B级联赛高一级,”
再加一个随手翻到的:
其中讲Joy Bill的时候,(第二章第一节)把”he made up a particulary complicated algorithm on the fly…” 译成了”他开发出一项运算特别复杂的飞行程序”… 其实这里的”on the fly”应该是”即兴”之类的意思. 而且算法和程序也不是一回事啊.

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luwei July 22, 2009 at 20:35

http://depositfiles.com/en/files/t6th1g0t7
这里的depositfiles.com 可以下到电子版

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echo December 22, 2009 at 03:04

Mininova搜不到了。
“From now on, only Content Distribution torrents are allowed.”

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Rui Liu December 26, 2009 at 17:06

“上个月,Gladwell的新书《Outliers: The Story of Success》发行”
这个链接打不开~

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YY January 6, 2010 at 23:10

No results for outliers

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vero July 31, 2010 at 20:38

我做了一个kindle版的上传到了115网盘,下载地址如下:

http://u.115.com/file/f9213d8540
Gladwell_Malcolm_-_Outliers_The_Story_of_Success_Little_Brown__Co_2008_9E906236.prc

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