Malcolm Gladwell
topherchris writes:
Apparently, Malcolm Gladwell’s third book is entitled Outliers: Why Some People Succeed and Some Don’t and is due on November 18, 2008.
The publisher says:
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.
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Looking forward to this. Gladwell rules anyway, but this does sound like a subject I’m particularly into. If you’ve not already read The Tipping Point and Blink, do so. Now. Horizon-broadening stuff.
