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Loading... Outliers: The Story of Successby Malcolm Gladwell
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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. I picked this one up at the Bangkok airport and haven't been able to put it down! (  ) rchase | Nov 16, 2009 |  WOW...What a great book! A book that you would want to read over again to give you inspiration and insight of what success is all about (  ) ricky2love | Nov 14, 2009 | jackvinson | Nov 3, 2009 | This is a study of how people achieve success across all spectrums of life. amandaknichols | Oct 15, 2009 | The inner flap starts with the question "Why do some people succeed far more than others?" and follows with the statment that to understand hos some people thrive, we should spend more time looking around them. There were a number of interesting examples presented such as how kids who were the oldest by a number of months were the "best" when being considered for the next level of hockey and how individuals susch as Bill Gates were at the happy intersection of the PC coming to be and having passion in programming. While these are legitimate lines of thought, there are just as many exceptions. The title of Outliers is really mis-leading the individuals portrayed were more a function of their environment and part of the "masses." Better subject matter would be of the indviduals who were contrary to the "trend." Lastly, a good percentage of those portrayed were household names -- Bill Joy, Bill Gates, etc. I would have been more interested in reading about successful individuals who weren't so well known. (  ) skraft001 | Oct 10, 2009 | 
 “Outliers” has much in common with Gladwell’s earlier work. It is a pleasure to read and leaves you mulling over its inventive theories for days afterward. It also, unfortunately, avoids grappling in a few instances with research that casts doubt on those theories. This is a particular shame, because it would be a delight to watch someone of his intellect and clarity make sense of seemingly conflicting claims.  The book, which purports to explain the real reason some people — like Bill Gates and the Beatles — are successful, is peppy, brightly written and provocative in a buzzy sort of way. It is also glib, poorly reasoned and thoroughly unconvincing.
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