Publisher Description
From the bestselling author of The Bomber Mafia, learn what sets high achievers apart—from Bill Gates to the Beatles—in this seminal work from “a singular talent” (New York Times Book Review).
In this stunning book, Malcolm Gladwell takes us on an intellectual journey through the world of “outliers”—the 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.
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“This book did two things for me. First, it made me ever firmer in my belief that providing opportunities is for the greatest importance in young people’s lives. Second, and this is more tangential, it made me want to recommit myself to production over consumption. Since completing my masters, I’ve been taking a consumption holiday. I’ve spend far more time reading that thinking/doing/writing and I need change back. Pronto.”
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Simsian (4 out of 5 stars)
