Outliers: by Malcolm Gladwell | A Concise Summary & Analysis: The Story of Success
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ISBN / ASINB010E2R2H2
ISBN-13978B010E2R2H5
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Outliers: by Malcolm Gladwell | A Concise Summary & Analysis: The Story of Success.
What you get from an Adept Summary & Analysis:
• An overview of the entire book
• Key takeaways from the book
• Easily accessible, easy to remember information
• Actionable and new ideas
A preview:
Roseto Valfortore is a small town near Rome. The residents were always poor and worked in marble quarries in the mountains while tilling their fields below. It wasn’t unusual for them to walk eight or more miles a day up and down hills.
Beginning in 1882, residents began to immigrate to the United States. Many found work in a Pennsylvania slate quarry. More and more Roseto families moved to the area, deserting whole streets of their Italian town. They worked the quarry and began to buy land on the steep hillside. Their houses were close together and the streets were steep and narrow ... mirroring their Italian home. They created a whole town, church included. They named it New Italy at first but then renamed it Roseto.
Italian was the spoken language. Roseto’s neighbors were two towns, one with mostly German immigrants and the other Welsh/English. There was little mingling amongst them.
Stewart Wolf was a physician who spent summers on his farm near Roseto. In casual conversation with a colleague he heard that heart disease among those under age sixty-five in Roseto was rare. This was in the 1950s when heart attacks in that age group were the leading cause of death in the U.S. Wolf first did a small study then later a larger one looking for the reason.
He found that the death rate for all causes was a third lower than expected. There was no suicide, no alcohol, or drug addiction. They explored the residents’ diet, exercise ... even genetics. Rosetos cooked with lard, had a diet high in saturated fat. They smoked and many were obese. They didn’t get much exercise. When Wolf tracked down people from Roseto, Italy, living elsewhere in the U.S., he found them to be nowhere near as healthy as those in the little Pennsylvania town. Wolf had discovered an outlier, a place no statistics of health science could explain.
Wolf finally concluded that it was the town itself that made the residents healthy. The transplants from Italy had created a place insulated from the modern world. People lived with many generations in the same household, they ate together, visited each other, prayed together at their one church. There were many civic organizations, the poor were supported, and money wasn’t worshipped.
In this book, Gladwell sets out to examine success in the same way Wolf examined the healthy people of Roseto – is success solely an individual’s accomplishment, or is something else at work?
Outliers: by Malcolm Gladwell | A Concise Summary & Analysis: The Story of Success.
What you get from an Adept Summary & Analysis:
• An overview of the entire book
• Key takeaways from the book
• Easily accessible, easy to remember information
• Actionable and new ideas
A preview:
Roseto Valfortore is a small town near Rome. The residents were always poor and worked in marble quarries in the mountains while tilling their fields below. It wasn’t unusual for them to walk eight or more miles a day up and down hills.
Beginning in 1882, residents began to immigrate to the United States. Many found work in a Pennsylvania slate quarry. More and more Roseto families moved to the area, deserting whole streets of their Italian town. They worked the quarry and began to buy land on the steep hillside. Their houses were close together and the streets were steep and narrow ... mirroring their Italian home. They created a whole town, church included. They named it New Italy at first but then renamed it Roseto.
Italian was the spoken language. Roseto’s neighbors were two towns, one with mostly German immigrants and the other Welsh/English. There was little mingling amongst them.
Stewart Wolf was a physician who spent summers on his farm near Roseto. In casual conversation with a colleague he heard that heart disease among those under age sixty-five in Roseto was rare. This was in the 1950s when heart attacks in that age group were the leading cause of death in the U.S. Wolf first did a small study then later a larger one looking for the reason.
He found that the death rate for all causes was a third lower than expected. There was no suicide, no alcohol, or drug addiction. They explored the residents’ diet, exercise ... even genetics. Rosetos cooked with lard, had a diet high in saturated fat. They smoked and many were obese. They didn’t get much exercise. When Wolf tracked down people from Roseto, Italy, living elsewhere in the U.S., he found them to be nowhere near as healthy as those in the little Pennsylvania town. Wolf had discovered an outlier, a place no statistics of health science could explain.
Wolf finally concluded that it was the town itself that made the residents healthy. The transplants from Italy had created a place insulated from the modern world. People lived with many generations in the same household, they ate together, visited each other, prayed together at their one church. There were many civic organizations, the poor were supported, and money wasn’t worshipped.
In this book, Gladwell sets out to examine success in the same way Wolf examined the healthy people of Roseto – is success solely an individual’s accomplishment, or is something else at work?
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