Outliers: the story of success

✍ Scribed by Gladwell, Malcolm

• Publisher: Little, Brown and Co.
• Year: 2008
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 171 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9780316017923

✦ Synopsis

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.