Outliers Chapter 5 (zz) Review

Joe Flom is a product of?

• poverty

• wealth

• World War I

• Europe

• Holocaust

What was significant in Joe Flom's environment?

• Living in the borough of Brooklyn

• Jewish heritage

• Russian immigrant families

• Attending New York City College

• Having blond hair

What is gingham cloth?

• White cotton shirt fabric

• Quilted material

• Needlework sewn onto a cloth

• Light weight, plain woven cloth, plaid pattern

What were TWO of Joe Flom's opportunities? MUST PICK TWO!

• Live on Staten Island with his wife and new car.

• Work at a large law firm in NYC.

• Going to University of Michigan.

• Working at a small upstart law firm.

• Attending Harvard Law School

What does, "hard work is a prison sentence only if it does not have meaning," mean in Outliers?

• It means work ties you down for a sentence of a few years.

• Its an opportunity to become wealthy if you work hard.

• If the work isn't satisfying, you won't be content.

• Golden opportunities await those who are Jewish.

• As long as you have intelligence, personality or ambition, you're good.

In response to the economic hardship of the Depression, the 1930s saw a "demographic trough." What is it?

• It has to do with how many people are enrolled in college in the US.

• Families simply stopped having children and as a result the generation born during that decade was markedly smaller than both the generation that preceded it and the generation that immediately followed it.

• It dealt with how many thousands of babies were enrolled in preschool in the Northeastern part of the USA.

• It deals with the month and year a hockey player was born.

Name TWO of the lessons of Joe Flom. MUST PICK TWO!

• The importance of being Jewish

• Attending Carnegie Hall for a quarter.

• Demographics based on your birth month.

• The importance of being Hungarian.

• Garment industry & meaningful work

According to Gladwell, what are your "antecedents?"

• Great grandparents that "proceeded" you

• Ancestors that came before you

• Your Aunty Ceedents on your daddy's size

• A thing or event that proceeds another

• a word, phrase, clause, or sentence to which another word (especially a following relative pronoun) refers

What are some life lessons that can be learned from the European immigrants?

• Their culture, generation and family history gave them the greatest of opportunities.

• Having the Nordic look will automatically put you ahead of everyone else.

• Being Muslim was the same as being Catholic.

• It's pretty easy to become a professional lawyer or doctor and to work in the garment industry.

What is a "haberdashery?"

• A store like Walmart.

• People who sell clothes.

• Place where men's suits and accessories are sold.

• A dealer in goods for dressmaking and sewing.