Outliers-Chapter 4

One of the three people/groups that Gladwell talks about include. . .

• Chris Langan, Robert Oppenheimer & the Termites
• Chris Lampray, Robert Oppenhoor, the Beetles
• Chris Stanley, Robert Ophray, the Bedbugs

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Chris Langan didn't succeed at Reed College because. . . 

• he didn't get along with the crew cut kids.
• he wanted to have a girlfriend.
• he lost his truck because his brothers didn't pay for it.
• his mom didn't know how to fill out the form so he lost his scholarship.

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What happened when Oppenheimer was at Harvard?

• Nothing. He graduated at the top of his class.
• He grew tired of his tutor being on him & planned to poison him.
• He quit college to begin working on the atomic bomb.
• He began learning Latin & Greek.

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After it was discovered that Oppenheimer wanted to kill his tutor, he was. . . 

• arrested and sent to Sing Sing Prison in NY.
• sent to jail.
• put on probation & sent to psychology.
• ready to become a gangster.

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What Chris Langan lacked that Robert Oppenheimer had was. . . 

• practical intelligence.
• innate talent.
• general intelligence and convergence.
• the right gene pool.

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Annette Lareau, a sociologist, interviewed 12 families with 3rd graders. She found two themes of how the parents were raising their children.

• Concerted cultivation & unnatural growth.
• A sense of entitlement and privacy issues.
• Concerted cultivation & accomplishment of natural growth
• Concert cultivation & innate growing pains.

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Concerted cultivation is. . . 

• a high class parenting style.
• an attempt to actively foster & assess a child's talents, opinions & skills.
• a negatively referenced phrase.
• a way to grow plants.

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Poor parents tend to follow the parenting style of . . . 

• concerted cultivation.
• managed interactions in institutional settings. 
• accomplishment of natural growth.

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Terman found out that his adult Termites were. . .

• college dropouts.
• only somewhat successful with the top 20 in the A group.
• slowly earning graduate degrees.

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Name one thing Oppenheimer & Langan had in common.

• They both went to Harvard.
• They both had two wealthy parents. 
• They both won the Nobel Peace prize. 
• They both were genuises.

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