This is by far the most interesting chapter of the book, where author discussed the crashing airplane cases of the Korean Airlines. Out of several examples, he compared achievements of people growing up in era of the Great Depression with the achievements of people, who grew in the aftermaths of the great depression. He gave example of a kid with right parenting easily discussing his concerns with a doctor, while the other kid failed to discuss and communicate with his peers.Īuthor further explores the idea of being born in a particular era can also play a vital role in making a man successful. According to Gladwell, kids with right parenting (usually practiced within elite families) make their children control their lives better. He said, a certain parenting style (usually found in middle class families) could leave a kid (even with a very high IQ) with bad interpersonal communication skills and a lot of other necessary traits that are essential to succeed. According to Gladwell, social class has a huge impact the way a child grow up. This eventually helped them become great at what they later become.Īuthor gave example of a person with a very high IQ, yet he failed to make into the list of successful people, because he was not trained to handle certain situations, due to bad parenting. They both got chance to practice their computing skills while they were both in school. Author gave example of Bill Joy and Bill Gates, pioneers of modern day computer programming. Advantage of playing and practicing with kids younger than them, eventually outshining them and get easily selected to play in the next level of the sport with better training opportunities and facilities.Īccording to this rule, if you practice any trait, art or skill long enough (10,000 hours in this case), you will eventually become great at it. From that point onwards, they gain an advantage. As the cutoff date for being selected in an ice hockey program is usually January 1st of each year, the kids born right after that date, get a unique advantage of being selected and trained with children of lesser age. To give an example, he discussed professional Ice Hockey players in Canada, who were mostly born in earlier months of a year. According to the author these factors include but may not limited to:Īccording to the book, successful people has a series of unique opportunities that other people usually don’t get. Apart from hard work, perseverance, and intelligence every success story has others factors too. UK Success Stories in Industrial Mathematics is therefore accessible to a wide readership with interest in the applications of mathematics and statistics to problems of industrial importance and to those interested in how mathematics and statistics research affects our everyday lives and leads to economic and societal benefits.The author tries to explore other aspects behind the success of famous people. Articles contain some mathematical detail, but the emphasis is on telling the story of a successful collaboration between academia and industry and on the results obtained. This work is aimed at a middle ground between these two. There are many publications in the realm of ‘popular mathematics’ as well as a vast research literature that underpins this. The articles are based on Impact Case Studies that were submitted to the Research Excellence Framework (REF2014), a UK government sponsored exercise that assessed the research quality within UK universities. The articles are grouped by sector, and include contributions to climate modelling, engineering and health. This publication showcases the work of UK mathematicians and statisticians by describing industrial problems that have been successfully solved, together with a summary of the financial and/or societal impact that arose from the work.
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