Outliers: The Story of Success
Author(s): Malcolm Gladwell
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.
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A fizzingly entertaining and enlighting book' -- Daily Mail
'Gladwell is not only a brilliant storyteller; he can see what those stories tell us, the lessons they contain' --Guardian
'You will never again think as you did before about [success] ... This book deserves the gold star that adorns its front cover' --A.C. Grayling, The Times
'Gladwell deploys a wealth of fascinating data and information to illustrate his thesis ... Outliers challenges accepted wisdom' --FT
'Malcolm Gladwell is a cerebral and jaunty writer, with an unusual gift for making the complex seem simple' --Observer
'Makes geniuses look a bit less special, and the rest of us a bit more so' --Time
Endlessly fascinating! Many chapters are now modern legends, like '10,000 Hour Rule', the importance of birthdays to succeed in sport. and the ethnic theory of plane crashes. -- April
General Fields
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- : Penguin UK
- : Penguin Press
- : 0.242
- : 01 June 2017
- : 198mm X 129mm X 18mm
- : books
Special Fields
- : Malcolm Gladwell
- : Paperback