Anyone else checked this out?
I found it to offer an interesting perspective on success. I wish the author would have gone into more detail and offered more specific hypotheses, but overall it was a good read.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outliers_(book)
"In Outliers, Gladwell examines the factors that contribute to high levels of success. To support his thesis, he examines the causes of why the majority of Canadian ice hockey players are born in the first few months of the calendar year, how Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates achieved his extreme wealth, and how two people with exceptional intelligence, Christopher Langan and J. Robert Oppenheimer, end up with such vastly different fortunes"
"Outliers asserts that success depends on the idiosyncrasies of the selection process used to identify talent just as much as it does on the athletes' natural abilities"
I found it to offer an interesting perspective on success. I wish the author would have gone into more detail and offered more specific hypotheses, but overall it was a good read.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outliers_(book)
"In Outliers, Gladwell examines the factors that contribute to high levels of success. To support his thesis, he examines the causes of why the majority of Canadian ice hockey players are born in the first few months of the calendar year, how Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates achieved his extreme wealth, and how two people with exceptional intelligence, Christopher Langan and J. Robert Oppenheimer, end up with such vastly different fortunes"
"Outliers asserts that success depends on the idiosyncrasies of the selection process used to identify talent just as much as it does on the athletes' natural abilities"