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.