Outliers: The Story of Success
BY MALCOLM GLADWELL
With a series of compelling and gracefully told stories, Gladwell deftly takes a hammer to the idea of the “self-made man Success is more complicated, he says. High achievers—from young Canadian hockey players to Bill Gates to the
Beatles—are often the products of hidden advantages of culture, timing,
demographics, and luck that helped them become masters in their fields.
Reading this book will lead you to reevaluate your own path. More important, it will make you wonder how much human potential we’re losing when so many people are denied these advantages.
Type I Insight: It is not how much money we make that ultimately makes us happy between nine-to-five. It’s whether our work fulfills us. If I offered you a choice between being an architect fora year and working in a tollbooth everyday for the rest of your life fora year, which would you take?
I’m guessing the former, because there is complexity, autonomy, and a relationship between effort and reward in doing creative work, and that’s worth more to most of us than money.”
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