This has to be one of the most exciting things I’ve heard today. HUGE fan of Malcolm Gladwell. Seriously. And this book just sounds like it’s going to be phenomenal.
I am seriously psyched about this… I WISH IT WAS OUT NOW.
Apparently, Malcolm Gladwell’s third book is entitled Outliers: Why Some People Succeed and Some Don’t and is due on November 18, 2008.
The publisher says:
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.
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