What will you learn?
- • The opportunities a person has may be influenced by seemingly irrelevant factors, such as the place, year, and month in which he or she was born
- • To become a master in your field, you need to invest at least 10,000 hours of your life practicing
- • You are much more prone to success when trying to find yourself in an activity you truly love
This book is ideal for
- • Everyone who wants to find out what is necessary for success
- • People who want to become "out of the ordinary"
- • Professionals and all the people who seek to become a master in their area of expertise
Who wrote the book?
Malcolm Gladwell is a British journalist, raised in Canada, and currently lives in New York. He has been a columnist for The New Yorker since 1996. He is best known as the author of the books The Point of Turn, Blink, What Happens in the Head of the Cubs and Other Adventures (Brazil) or What the Dog Saw and Other Stories (Portugal), Out of Series: Outliers and David and Goliath. Gladwell began his career with The American Spectator, a monthly magazine. From 1987 to 1996, he was a science writer, and later head of the New York office of The Washington Post. He is currently a columnist for The New Yorker. His books The Tipping Point (2000) and Blink (2005) were international bestsellers. Both works were substantially serialized in The New Yorker. Gladwell received a one million... (Read more)
Ratings and Comments
Interesting research. I wish there had been more focus on how to improve your chances of success
Unfortunately, I didn't understand little about it because I only listening, but I will read later
Interesting. Engaging. Not much as far as new material just put together in the same book.
Good
Excellent Analysis and Examples
Good
To good man
Amazing
Interesting insight
It is an interesting book, with valueless information to help understand more what are behind success of successful people.