Book: Outliers

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Outliers: The Story of Success
Malcolm Gladwell
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In this stunning new book, Malcolm Gladwell takes us on an intellectual journey through the world of "outliers"--the best and the brightest, the most famous and the most successful. He asks the question: what makes high-achievers different?

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, Outliers is a landmark work that will simultaneously delight and illuminate.

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I was thinking of reactivating my Audible account again, but I got lucky and got a chance to try Libby (someone in my circles happened to have an account that had access to a library, and he didn't use it anyway, so I loaned his credentials and so got access to a library on Libby.) and this was the first audiobook I decided to try out the Libby app with.

Listening to a book is so much different from reading a book. There were many times when I nodded in agreement with the book but now that I have to write about it... I'm drawing a blank on specifics.

Amusingly enough, I was just talking about this "which month you are born" and "when to start school" topic just a few days ago. I recall thinking about "that cut off line would be so unfair to the kids born later in the year" and that's one of the things this book discussed about. I'm amused by the coincidence.

Oh and apparently this author read his own book.