A Joosr Guide to... Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell: The Story of Success

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What separates the exceptionally successful from the rest of us? Is it talent, hard work or plain dumb luck?

Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell rejects the popular world-view that extraordinary success is attained through hard work, determination and application of knowledge and intelligence. Instead, though numerous examples from the Beatles to Bill Gates, Gladwell demonstrates the crucial impact of factors beyond our control in mapping our destiny. Cultural origin, lucky breaks and even geography all have a part to play in both our successes and our failures.

You will learn:

· How to recognize intriguing patterns in the lives of super-successful individuals.

· Why circumstances out of your control-such as the year or even the month you were born-can determine whether you'll be picked for the sports team or become a computer mogul.

· What it takes to transcend the mediocre to achieve outstanding success.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Joosr
• Release date: May 26, 2015
• ISBN: 9781785670015

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What’s it about?

Some individuals attain exceptional success in their field of expertise. Their achievements fascinate and inspire us. We tend to believe that their talent, ambition, determination, and other positive personal qualities have taken them places. But think about this: positive personal qualities aren’t hard to come by – remarkably successful people are. Does that mean there’s something beyond individual merit that goes into the making of extremely wealthy and famous individuals?

There just might be, and Outliers examines the unexpected factors that predestine only some among us for extraordinary professional success. Author Malcolm Gladwell calls such individuals outliers, borrowing from the statistical concept that means something situated away from others in a group. Outliers are, quite simply, intriguing in the way they’ve accomplished so much more than others in their group. Studies of outliers challenge popular beliefs about success and results. They present alternative explanations and reveal the unobserved truth about what is lurking behind the obvious.

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