In this stunning new book, Malcolm Gladwell takes us on an intellectual journey through the world of outliersthe best and the brightest, the most famous and the most successful. He asks the question: what makes high-achievers different? His answer is that we pay too much attention to what successful people are like, and too little attention to where they are from: that is, their culture, their family, their generation, and the idiosyncratic experiences of their upbringing. Along the way he...
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In this stunning new book, Malcolm Gladwell takes us on an intellectual journey through the world of outliersthe best and the brightest, the most famous and the most successful. He asks the question: what makes high-achievers different? His answer is that we pay too much attention to what successful people are like, and too little attention to where they are from: that is, their culture, their family, their generation, and the idiosyncratic experiences of their upbringing. Along the way he explains the secrets of software billionaires, what it takes to be a great soccer player, why Asians are good at math, and what made the Beatles the greatest rock band.
Brilliant and entertaining, OUTLIERS is a landmark work that will simultaneously delight and illuminate.
The Barnes & Noble Review It's not uncommon, reading a newspaper or watching television, to learn that science has just discovered something everyone already knows. Often it sounds like awful stand-up: Men, women different, finds ten-month toilet-seat study or Drunk researchers: 'Beer goggles' real. If Malcolm Gladwell's Outliers: The Story of Success were pared down to a headline, it would be Gladwell: Life Unfair.
