Outliers The Story of Success [Hardcover]

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,Outliersis a landmark work that will simultaneously delight and illuminate.Malcolm Gladwell is the author of fiveNew York Timesbestsellers:The Tipping Point,Blink, Outliers,What the Dog Saw,andDavid and Goliath.He is also the co-founder of Pushkin Industries, an audio content company that produces the podcastsRevisionist History, which reconsiders things both overlooked and misunderstood, andBroken Record,where he, Rick Rubin, and Bruce Headlam interview musicians across a wide range of genres. Gladwell has been included in theTime100 Most Influential People list and touted as one ofForeign Policy'sTop Global Thinkers. In the vast world of nonfiction writing, Malcolm Gladwell is as close to a singular talent as exists today...Outliersis a pleasure to read and leaves you mulling over its inventive theories for days afterward. David Leonhardt,New York Times Book Review The explosively entertainingOutliersmight be Gladwell's best and most useful work yet...There arl3=