Synopsis
Outliers: The Story of Success is the third non-fiction book written by Malcolm Gladwell and published by Little, Brown and Company on November 18, 2008. In Outliers, Gladwell examines the factors that contribute to high levels of success. To support his thesis, he examines the causes of why the majority of Canadian ice hockey players are born in the first few months of the calendar year, how Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates achieved his extreme wealth, how The Beatles became one of the most successful musical acts in human history, how Joseph Flom built Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom into one of the most successful law firms in the world, how cultural differences play a large part in perceived intelligence and rational decision making, and how two people with exceptional intelligence, Christopher Langan and J. Robert Oppenheimer, end up with such vastly different fortunes. The book is so fascinating, that Outliers: The Story of Success is a must have in one's library.
About the Author
Malcolm Gladwell, the Author of Outliers, was a journalist for The Washington Post before writing forThe New Yorker. The subjects for his articles, usually non-fiction, range from Ron Popeil's infomercial empire to computers that analyze pop songs. His familiarity with academic material has allowed him to write about psychology experiments, sociological studies, law articles, statistical surveys of plane crashes and classical musicians and hockey players, which he converts into prose accessible to a general audience and which sometimes pass as memes into the popular imagination.
