Outliers · the story of success
- Authors
- Gladwell, Malcolm
- Publisher
- Little, Brown and Company
- Tags
- business , sociology , general , success , personal growth , business & economics , self help , science , psychology , successful people , applied psychology , social psychology , self-help
- ISBN
- 9780316017923
- Date
- 2008-11-18T00:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 0.29 MB
- Lang
- en
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.