Outliers: The Story of Success Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann Spots of ink and signs

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Outliers: The Story of Success Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann Spots of ink and signsIn this stunning new book, Malcolm Gladwell takes us on an intellectual journey through the world of "outliers"the best and the brightest, the most famous and the most successful. He asks the question: what makes high achievers different? His answer is that we pay too much attention to what successful people are like, and too little attention to where they are from: that is, their culture, their family, their generation, and the idiosyncratic