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Why I like this book:
It really challenged my thinking about why people are successful in this world. The author uses statistics to debunk the myth that we can "pull ourselves up by our own bootstraps."
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.
(retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:58:20 -0400)
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