upcoming from Malcolm Gladwell – ‘Outliers’ – excerpt available
Written on September 10, 2008
Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell is scheduled for a Nov 18 release, but available for pre-order and the publisher Hachette Book Group has an excerpt available here, which appears to be the whole prologue.
Product Description
In this stunning new book, Malcolm Gladwell takes us on an intellectual journey through the world of “outliers”–the best and the brightest, the most famous and the most successful. He asks the question: what makes high-achievers different? His answer is that we pay too much attention to what successful people are like, and too little attention to where they are from: that is, their culture, their family, their generation, and the idiosyncratic experiences of their upbringing. Along the way he explains the secrets of software billionaires, what it takes to be a great soccer player, why Asians are good at math, and what made the Beatles the greatest rock band.Brilliant and entertaining, OUTLIERS is a landmark work that will simultaneously delight and illuminate.
BuzzFeed has some more links on Outliers and Gladwell…
[…] I mentioned Gladwell’s new book Outliers: The Story of Success awhile ago, but it seems worth mentioning again, now that the book has been released and there are lots of related links. The Amazon page has a short video from Gladwell introducing his book. […]