Read Outliers: The Story of Success if you have kids, read it if you want success and read it to learn what you think may not hold up to reality. If there is reincarnation, I want to have Malcolm Gladwell’s brain when I return and, btw, I’d love to be born at the right time. Read the book to find ou...
Gladwell has produced yet another thought-provoking but readable piece of "popular psychology" (for a lack of a better phrase). I think I like this one more than Blink, as Blink was rather one-sided and I agree more with Gladwell this time round (though both are equally engaging and readable...you ...
Some fascinating disconnected observations are joined together to create a compelling exploration of success. Think Freakonomics meets poor man alamanac.
Outliers is the study of success and an attempt to reconceptualize the traits and factors that we typically associate with success. Gladwell is eminently readable and he builds his arguments in an engaging way - usually with some rather startling or puzzling statistics, or a story of success, that i...
In Outliers Gladwell examines the concept of the "success" tackling examples from Mozart to Bill Gates to the fact that Canadian hockey players are most likely to be born in the first three months of the year. Gladwell doesn't believe in the true "self-made man". For instance Mozart would never have...
i'm disappointed with amount of time this book had taken away from me (and i've read it in one afternoon). It could easily be written in 30 pages instead of about 300 without loosing its point.he does indeed makes some valid conclusions, but nothing remarkable and new. he points out some interesting...
As Americans, we tend to think of highly successful individuals, such as Bill Gates, as somehow making their fortunes because of their own innate skills and talents. In fact, we hold the ideal of the self-made man/woman in such high regard that we ignore the facts. In this book, Malcolm Gladwell e...
Here's the quote that summed up the book for me: "To build a better world, we need to replace the patchwork of lucky breaks and arbitrary advantages that today determine success -- the fortunate birth dates and the happy accidents of history -- with a society that provides opportunities for all." T...
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