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Outliers
Malcolm Gladwell, bestselling author of Blink and The Bomber Mafia and host of the podcast Revisionist History, explores 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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Reviews
The author offers very new ways of viewing success and achievement that are at times enlightening and at times somewhat discouraging. But the thoughts that the research a writing evokes are clearly important.
By M_Lubo
Rich of research. If I were a president if a state, I would make this book mandatory in all schools. It’s one of the things I wish I read when I was much younger. The 7th chapter (The Ethnic Theory of Plane Crashes) is the best part. Sometimes it made me feel demoralized, but I guess it’s the reality of life. I would love to read more books of the same kind.
By Faisal Salah
This was a very informative book. Makes you think about how you can improve.
By Game_Review8879
Provocative reading which explains how our circumstances support our gifts.
By Susanlberry
Academics should never write about real life, they have limited knowledge on the vast lived experience. Binary assumptions asserted about situations with clear intersections is a key sign of limited perception. It is harmful because people will quote these limited thoughts as facts and make decisions based solely on the reputation of the academic. Do better.
By Ace Rah T