All 23 Uses
legacy
in
Outliers
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- But in fact they are invariably the beneficiaries of hidden advantages and extraordinary opportunities and cultural legacies that allow them to learn and work hard and make sense of the world in ways others cannot.†
Chpt 1
- The culture we belong to and the legacies passed down by our forebears shape the patterns of our achievement in ways we cannot begin to imagine.†
Chpt 1
- PART TWO LEGACY†
Chpt 5
- Murder rates are higher there than in the * David Hackett Fischer's book Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways is the most definitive and convincing treatment of the idea that cultural legacies cast a long historical shadow.†
Chpt 6
- It's just the beginning, though, because upon closer examination, cultural legacies turn out to be even stranger and more powerful than that.†
Chpt 6
- They come Cultural legacies are powerful forces.†
Chpt 6
- Can we learn something about why people succeed and how to make people better at what they do by taking cultural legacies seriously?
Chpt 6 *legacies = things passed from one generation to the next
- Korean Air did not succeed, it did not right itself, until it acknowledged the importance of its cultural legacy.†
Chpt 7
- Their problem was that they were trapped in roles dictated by the heavy weight of their country's cultural legacy.†
Chpt 7
- Instead, the pilots could participate in a culture and language with a very different legacy.†
Chpt 7
- He knew that cultural legacies matter, that they are powerful and pervasive and that they persist, long after their original usefulness has passed.†
Chpt 7
- But he didn't assume that legacies are an indelible part of who we are.†
Chpt 7
- In the case of the Koreans, one kind of deeply rooted legacy stood in the way of the very modern task of flying an airplane.†
Chpt 8
- Here we have another kind of legacy, one that turns out to be perfectly suited for twenty-first-century tasks.†
Chpt 8
- Cultural legacies matter, and once we've seen the * On international comparison tests, students from Japan, South Korea, Hong Kong, Singapore, and Taiwan all score roughly the same in math, around the ninety-eighth percentile.†
Chpt 8
- Surprising effects of such things as power distance and numbers that can be said in a quarter as opposed to a third of a second, it's hard not to wonder how many other cultural legacies have an impact on our twenty-first-century intellectual tasks.†
Chpt 8
- KIPP is, rather, an organization that has succeeded by taking the idea of cultural legacies seriously.†
Chpt 9
- The long summer vacation, a peculiar and distinctive American legacy that has had profound consequences for the learning patterns of the students of the present day.†
Chpt 9
- Marita has had to do the same because the cultural legacy she had been given does not match her circumstances either, not when middle— and upper-middle-class families are using weekends and summer vacation to push their children ahead.†
Chpt 9
- And what Korean Air did, when it finally turned its operations around, was give its pilots the opportunity to escape the constraints of their cultural legacy.†
Chpt 9
- It leaves out my mother's many opportunities and the importance of her cultural legacy.†
Chpt Epil.
- She was the inheritor of a legacy of privilege.†
Chpt Epil.
- They are products of history and community, of opportunity and legacy.†
Chpt Epil.
Definitions:
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(1)
(legacy) coming from the past or left to the futurein various senses including:
- in law -- a gift given through a will -- "She left a legacy of $10,000 to her niece."
- of a situation -- resulting from the past -- "Today's debt problem is a legacy of profligate spending by prior administrations."
- of culture -- a practice passed from one generation to the next -- "The city has along legacy of bribes and corruption."
- of technology -- something that still uses old technology -- "We're using a legacy software that only the old-timers know how to update."
- of a member or potential member of an organization -- the child of a previous member -- "She is a legacy candidate."
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)