Outliers: The Story of Success

Here's a great read...

In the book, Outliers: The Story of Success, Malcolm Gladwell asks the question, “What makes high achievers different?” He answers that question through a series of vignettes about successful people. He studies where they are from, when they were born, their culture, their family, their upbringing, their generation and the special experiences they have which help lead them to success.

Through the individual stories, we see why some geniuses succeed and others fail to achieve; we identify the cultural issues that made Korean Air Lines pilots much more likely to crash; we understand the cultural issues that lead Asians to be good at math; we can imagine the cultural, generational and timing issues which allowed Jewish lawyers born in the early 1930” to be the most successful merger and acquisition lawyers in the country.

These stories and more are entertaining, perplexing and ultimately, satisfying. Hope you enjoy it as much as I did!