Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell the story of Success

'Unabashedly inspiring . . A provocative and practical book about the landscape of success. - Jonah Raskin, San Francisco Chronicle n understanding successful people, we have come to focus far too much on their intelligence and ambition and personality traits. Instead, Malcolm dwell argues in Outliers, we should look at the world that surrounds the cessful- their culture, their family, their generation, and the idiosyncratic eriences of their upbringing. Along the way, Gladwell reveals what the les and Bill Gates have in common, the reason you've never heard of ›martest man in the world, why almost no star hockey players are born in all, and why, when it comes to plane crashes, where the pilots are born ers as much as how well they are trained. he lives of outliers - people whose achievements fall outside normal rience follow a peculiar and unexpected logic, and in uncovering that Gladwell presents a fascinating and provocative blueprint for making the of human potential. *Outliers is a compelling read with an important message by derstanding better what makes people successful we should be able to produce more successful (and happy) people." - Economist