What is the perfect recipe to be famous and successful? Is it luck, rare opportunities, being at the right place at the right time? Outliers examine what it takes to be a success.
Summary of the Book
With the outliers, the author Malcolm Gladwell takes the readers on a journey to discover what really makes high-achievers different from the rest of us. This book focuses on who and how successful people are, rather than, where they come from. It also unveils secrets of software billionaires, the greatest soccer players, why Asians ace in math, and why the Beatles are the greatest.
About Malcolm Gladwell
Malcolm Timothy Gladwell is a well-known journalist, author, and public speaker from Canada. He has written five books, all of which have been included in the New York Times Best Seller list. He is the author of the following bestsellers: The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference, Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking, Outliers: The Story of Success, What the Dog Saw: And Other Adventures, and David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants. He also works on podcasts. He is the founder of the podcasting company Pushkin Industries.
Malcolm Gladwell shows why the story of success is far more surprising and more fascinating than we could ever imagine why are people successful For centuries, humankind has grappled with this question, searching for the secret to accomplishing great things. In this stunning new book, Malcolm Gladwell takes us on an invigorating intellectual journey to show us what makes an extreme overachiever. He reveals that we pay far too much attention to what successful people are like, and too little attention to where successful people are from their culture, their family, and their generation. Gladwell examines how the careers of Bill Gates and the performance of world-class football players are alike what top fighter pilots and The Beatles have in common why so many top lawyers are Jewish why Asians are good at maths and why it is correct to say that the mathematician who solved Fermat's Theorem is not a genius. Just as he did in Blink, Gladwell overturns many of our conventional notions and creates an entirely new model for seeing the world. Brilliant and entertaining, this is a landmark work that will simultaneously delight and illuminate.
