Outliers: The Story of Success

Dans ce livre stupéfiant, Malcolm Gladwell nous emmène dans un voyage intellectuel à travers le monde des "hors normes" - les meilleurs et les plus brillants, les plus célèbres et les plus prospères. Il pose la question : qu'est-ce qui rend les personnes très performantes différentes ?

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 experiences of their upbringing. Along the way he explains the secrets of software billionaires, what it takes to be a great soccer player, why Asians are good at math, and what made the Beatles the greatest rock band.