In this stunning new 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.
Details of e-book Outliers: The Story of Success
- Author(s): Malcolm Gladwell
- Title: Outliers: The Story of Success
- Rating: 4.7 out of 5 base on 21119 reviews
- Publisher: Back Bay Books; Reprint edition (June 7, 2011)
- ISBN-10: 0316017930
- ISBN-13: 9780316017930
- Language: English
- Print length: 336 pages
- Categories: Politics & Social Sciences
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