Summary Of 'I D Play Outliers'

According to Lang Lang : 'I 'd Play Piano At 5am ' by Rosanna Greenstreet, the pressure from Mr. Lang made Lang Lang world-class musician outlier. Mr. Lang push his son to play the piano; he wanted better things for Lang Lang in life. Lang has become the biggest influence person to another pianist. His success took him to higher opportunities such as playing for President Barack Obama and getting listed in Times Magazine 's "100 Most Influential People in the World". His father did what he could for his son so he could become the number one classical pianist in China with long practices, working hard and moving away from home. In Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell, it shows you need a number amount of practices to meet a famous point in your life, which Lang Lang 's father had got him to. The sacrifices of his father made the success of Lang Lang now; without his parents sacrifices there would be no Lang Lang.

Lang Lang 's mother wanted to be a professional musician; his father wanted stay traveling as a musician in the air force orchestra. Their ambitions ended when they became victims of China 's cultural revolution when they got married. In the generation they lived in mothers and fathers living under China 's one-child policy, they sacrificed everything and placed their dreams into the hands of

Lang Lang practices 65% of the time. Mr. Lang would wake Lang Lang up 5am to start practice. Lang Lang has been playing the piano seen he was five years old by the time he becomes famous, Lang Lang was 22 years old. Lang Lang shows that the 10,000-hour rule is proven to be useful. The book Outliers talks about children who start at the age of five years as they get older the time of practices increases mostly up to thirty hours per weeks which was the case for Lang Lang. "In fact, by the age twenty, the elite performers had each totaled ten thousand hours of practice"(pg 39). All the practice that Mr. Lang made Lang Lang do finally equal 10,000 hours, which in