Book description
Why do some people achieve so much more than others? Can they lie so
far out of the ordinary?
In his provocative and inspiring book, Malcolm Gladwell looks at
everyone from rock stars to professional athletes, software
billionaires to scientific geniuses, to show that the story of success
is far more surprising, and more fascinating, than we could ever have
imagined. He reveals that it's as much about where we're from and what
we do, as who we are - and that no one, not even a genius, ever makes
it alone.
Outliers will change the way you think about your own life
story, and about what makes us all unique. Like Blink, this is
a landmark work that will simultaneously delight and illuminate.
Author, journalist, cultural commentator and intellectual adventurer,
Malcolm Gladwell was born in 1963 in England to a Jamaican mother and an
English mathematician father. He grew up in Canada and graduated with a
degree in history from the University of Toronto in 1984. From 1987 to
1996, he was a reporter for the
Washington Post
, first as a science writer and then as New York City bureau chief.
Since 1996, he has been a staff writer for the
New Yorker
magazine. His curiosity and breadth of interests are shown in
New Yorker
articles ranging over a wide array of subjects including early
childhood development and the flu, not to mention hair dye, shopping and
what it takes to be cool. His first book
The Tipping Point
captured the world's attention with its theory that a curiously small
change can have unforeseen effects, and the phrase has become part of
our language, used by writers, politicians and business people
everywhere to describe cultural trends and strange phenomena. 'His other
international bestselling books are
Blink
, which explores how a snap judgement can be far more effective than a
cautious decision, and
What The Dog Saw
, a collection of his most provocative and entertaining
New Yorker
pieces.
