Outliers: The Story of Success
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This book is linked with the post “Marking the Hours”.
Tags: Analysis, Exceptional, Outliers, Singular
Review
Rating: 5
Being the 3rd book released, should I have read the Tipping Point and Blink beforehand? I started with Outliers and now I’ll be reading Tipping Point. Hopefully I can get it down by end of this month.
Malcolm Gladwell is a writer of his own. I certainly do like the writing style putting everything into a simplified context although some reviews/critics tend to say that he oversimplified the matter especially sociology context per say in this book.
Nonetheless, I felt contradicted when he mentioned at first 10,000 hours is needed to enable one to be successful. Then it has matter to do with the social upbringing and then being at the right time at the right place.
In the end of the book, it seems more personal touch when he attribute his grandmother for being an outlier of its own.