Rating: ****
Tags: General, Success, Self-Help, Personal Growth, Psychology, Successful people, Applied Psychology, Social Psychology, Business & Economics, Lang:en
Summary
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.