Outliers: The Story of Success (Small)

Why do people achieve success? Humanity has pondered this topic for millennia, searching for the key to achieving great feats. In this groundbreaking new book, Malcolm Gladwell takes us on an intellectually stimulating trip to reveal what constitutes an extreme overachiever.

He exposes that we give far too much attention to the characteristics of successful people and far too little attention to their origins: their culture, family, and generation. Gladwell examines the similarities between the careers of Bill Gates and those of world-class football players; what top fighter pilots and The Beatles have in common; why so many top lawyers are Jewish; why Asians are good at math; and why it is accurate to say that the mathematician who solved Fermat’s Theorem is not a genius.

As he did in Blink, Gladwell challenges many of our preconceived beliefs and introduces a totally new way of perceiving the world. This groundbreaking work is both brilliant and entertaining, and it will both entertain and educate.