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Malcolm Gladwell
2008
Nonfiction
Nonfiction
Western culture has long attributed success to the hard work and intelligence of the individual. Author Malcolm Gladwell flips that theory on its head in Outliers: The Story of Success. He argues the highest achievers—including professional athletes, software magnates, and powerful lawyers—can attribute a good portion of their success to once-in-a-lifetime opportunities, fortuitous coincidences, and cultural background. Outliers is not a self-help book but rather a book about how it takes many people working together to help an individual succeed. Gladwell means to inspire a sense of community and helpfulness in his readers.
An outlier is something that stands apart from a group of like things, such as a wolf that leaves the pack to hunt on its own. In Outliers: The Story of Success, author Malcolm Gladwell uses the term to describe people whose personal success has separated them from the rest of the population.
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