Outliers
The Story of Success
Number of pages: 309
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
BBB Library: Creativity and Innovation
ISBN: 9780316017923
Editorial Review
There is a story that is usually told about extremely successful people, a story that focuses on intelligence and ambition. Gladwell argues that the true story of success is very different, and that if we want to understand how some people thrive, we should spend more time looking around them-at such things as their family, their birthplace, or even their birth date. And in revealing that hidden logic, Gladwell presents a fascinating and provocative blueprint for making the most of human potential. In The Tipping Point Gladwell changed the way we understand the world. In Blink he changed the way we think about thinking. In OUTLIERS he transforms the way we understand success.
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Their success was not just of their own making. It was a product of the world in which they grew up.
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The people at the very top don’t work just harder or even much harder than everyone else. They work much, much harder.
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