Outliers : Por qu? unas personas tienen ?xito y otras no/ The Story of Success

from keely_chace

Gladwell's main point is that, contrary to popular belief, sucess is much less about individual talent or intelligence than it is about an individual's circumstances and unique opportunities, many of them the result of the social class, the culture, the generation or, in the case of Canadian hock...

from browner56

Why do seemingly average people succeed in life while others who appear to be geniuses fail? Why do certain countries tend to produce the worst airline pilots? Why were lawyers born in the 1930s likely to be far more successful than those born just a single generation earlier or later? Subtitled ...

from trek520

Although I've never personally met Malcolm Gladwell I can state with great confidence that the things I dislike most about him are his insights and smarts. How can someone who is "just" a journalist get so smart about so many different disciplines? And, where does he come up with these research c...

from nbmars

In Outliers, Malcolm Gladwell gives us two books in one. On the one hand, we have an entertaining collection of vignettes about people who were successful, and people who should have been successful but were not. On the other, we have a book purporting to draw scientific conclusions from a select...

from KevinJoseph

Everyone is interested in the recipe for success. So it's no wonder that the public is so enthralled by a book claiming that anyone with an IQ of 120 can become a nobel prize winner or industry titan as long as he is born at the right time and place and is willing to devote 10,000 hours of practi...