Outliers: The Story of Success written by Malcolm Gladwell
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
I enjoyed Outliers. After reading it, I may go back and explore Gladwell’s more famous titles. In Outliers, Gladwell uses the benefit of hindsight to take the shine off the magic of success. He argues that success is often nothing more than circumstance, whether it is through culture, history, opportunity, or legacy. He presents an interesting range of cited examples, demonstrating that success is often down to one critical element, for example, the power of 10,000 hours of practice, or being born close enough to the start of the year, and so on. Depending on how you look at it, Outliers opens up the possibility to our own success, or closes the same door. Either way, it provides fascinating food for thought – particularly to hopeful parents of future hockey champions.