Outliers: The Story of Success (The Matthew Effect)

The next book I am going to review, and the second I have read by this author, is Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell. This book is completely fascinating and I would recommend it to anyone.

This work delves into the factors of success and basically breaks it down into two parts: opportunity and legacy. Your background and development makes you a perfect and sometimes only fit for opportunities that arise in the world. But what are the things that create those opportunities? You would be surprised at how random some of them are.

Friday and the Random 10 (Outliers edition)

Well we are back for another week of randomness and after last week's literary crapdom (The Catcher in the Rye...ugh), I'm glad to say that the next book I read was much better. So much better in fact that I read it all in one day. It was called Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell and it was a fascinating read (review coming soon). So that has me in a better state of mind for whatever music comes our way today.