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ORIGINAL BOOK DESCRIPTION: Outliers: The Story of Success Hardcover – November 18, 2008
by Malcolm Gladwell (Author)

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.

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ORIGINAL BOOK DETAILS:
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Paperback: 336 pages
Publisher: Back Bay Books; Reprint edition (June 7, 2011)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0316017930
ISBN-13: 978-0316017930
Product Dimensions: 5.5 x 1.1 x 8.2 inches
Shipping Weight: 10.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4,328 customer reviews)
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #61 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
#1 in Books > Business & Money > Job Hunting & Careers > Vocational Guidance
#1 in Books > Science & Math > Mathematics > Applied > Statistics
#1 in Books > Business & Money > Business Culture > Workplace Culture
Program Type: Audiobook
Version: Unabridged
Publisher: Hachette Audio
Audible.com Release Date: November 18, 2008
Whispersync for Voice: Ready
Language: English
ASIN: B001LNK9C4
Amazon Best Sellers Rank:
#6 in Books > Medical Books > Psychology > Social Psychology & Interactions
#7 in Books > Medical Books > Psychology > General
#10 in Books > Health, Fitness & Dieting > Psychology & Counseling > Social Psychology & Interactions

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
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Malcolm Gladwell has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 1996. He is the author of The Tipping Point, Blink, Outliers, and What the Dog Saw. Prior to joining The New Yorker, he was a reporter at the Washington Post. Gladwell was born in England and in rural Ontario. He now lives in New York

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Amazon Best of the Month, November 2008: Now that he's gotten us talking about the viral life of ideas and the power of gut reactions, Malcolm Gladwell poses a more provocative question in Outliers: why do some people succeed, living remarkably productive and impactful lives, while so many more never reach their potential? Challenging our cherished belief of the "self-made man," he makes the democratic assertion that superstars don't arise out of nowhere, propelled by genius and talent: "they are invariably the beneficiaries of hidden advantages and extraordinary opportunities and cultural legacies that allow them to learn and work hard and make sense of the world in ways others cannot." Examining the lives of outliers from Mozart to Bill Gates, he builds a convincing case for how successful people rise on a tide of advantages, "some deserved, some not, some earned, some just plain lucky."