02280cam a2200397 i 4500 626078190 TxAuBib 20090813120000.0 080725s2008||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2008032824 9780316017923 0316017922 9780316017930 paperback 0316017930 paperback (OCoLC)225870354 DLC eng rda DLC YDX BTCTA BAKER YDXCP UPZ IH9 WIQ NPL ZJI CDX VP@ LMR OKN BWX TxAuBib rda Gladwell, Malcolm, 1963- Outliers : the story of success / Malcolm Gladwell. First edition. New York : Little, Brown and Co., 2008. 309 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-296) and index. In understanding successful people, we have come to focus far too much on their intelligence and ambition and personality traits. Instead, Malcolm Gladwell argues in Outliers, we should look at the world that surrounds the successful their culture, their family, their generation and the idiosyncratic experiences of their upbringing. Along the way, Gladwelll reveals what the Beatles and Bill Gates have in common, the reason you're never heard of the smartest man in the world, why almost no star hockey players are born in the fall, and why, when it comes to plane crashes, where the pilots are born matters as much as how well they are trained. The lives of outliers people whose achievements fall normal experience - follow a peculiar and unexpected logic, and in uncovering that logic, Gladwell presents a fascinating and provocative blueprint for making the most of human potential. Book jacket. 1080L Lexile. Accelerated Reader AR UG 7.8 13 164990. 20090813. New York Times Best Sellers, 2008. Successful people. Success. Best sellers. TXAAL