Great book . Define success successfully

The author offers very new ways of viewing success and achievement that are at times enlightening and at times somewhat discouraging. But the thoughts that the research a writing evokes are clearly important.

Rich of research. If I were a president if a state, I would make this book mandatory in all schools. It’s one of the things I wish I read when I was much younger. The 7th chapter (The Ethnic Theory of Plane Crashes) is the best part. Sometimes it made me feel demoralized, but I guess it’s the reality of life. I would love to read more books of the same kind.

This was a very informative book. Makes you think about how you can improve.

Provocative reading which explains how our circumstances support our gifts.

Academics should never write about real life, they have limited knowledge on the vast lived experience. Binary assumptions asserted about situations with clear intersections is a key sign of limited perception. It is harmful because people will quote these limited thoughts as facts and make decisions based solely on the reputation of the academic. Do better.

Gladwell masterfully uses data, science and storytelling to make sense of the conflicts we all hold in our hearts about success, race, wealth, and privilege. Bravo!

I found some of the sentences in this book quite offensive and supremacist towards the immigrant community, including myself, an outlier.

This was an amazing book. Start to finish. I’m literally going to read at least 2 more of his books if not all of them. Highly recommend.

Such an interesting collection of facts that has altered my way of thinking. I just wish there was more of a summation of something I could do to be more successful, it seems like these outliers had a fair bit of chance and luck to make them great.