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Outliers: The Story of Success

Malcolm Gladwell

Start date: February 16, 2016

Finish date: February 23, 2016

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Sep 15, 2022 Larissa rated it really liked it

Outliers was a really interesting look at the way people succeed and basically theorizes that that there really is a lot of luck and timing vs just hard work for those who seem to be considered a “man-made success”.

So many interesting things were discussed in this book. Like Bill Gates was the only teenager to have unlimited computer access at 13 years old when most computer scientist couldn’t even access computers that much. Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, and Bill Joy were all born within six months ...more

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Apr 05, 2010 Joanna rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: nonfiction, audiobooks, 2010-read

This book is really a magazine article stretched to book length. The premise, while important, is not particularly novel: to be successful, one must be both smart, talented, and hardworking and also lucky enough to have the right opportunities at the right time. Gladwell pitches the book as an important lesson for society about the importance of providing the right opportunities at the right time, but really all he's able to do is look historically to see what cultural factors turned out to be h ...more

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