I’m a pretty big fan of Malcolm Gladwell. I’ve bought both The Tipping Point and Blink and found them both really interesting. I was walking through the library while returning some books and saw they had Outliers his most recent one. So, I picked it up on the way out... expecting to finish it in about a week or so, since I’m also reading The Lord of the Rings (my boyfriend is a huge fan, I feel like I’m missing something by not having read or seen the movies). I finished it that evening. I was completely hooked from beginning to end. If you haven’t read it yet, what he does is he looks at people who have been amazingly successful and studied what made them successful. He found that it wasn’t necessarily intelligence or insane amounts of hard work (although both are key ingredients), but rather it was simply a matter of being in the right place at the right time. Like Bill Gates for example. He was extraordinarily fortunate to be in the school where he was, with the friends that he had and the connections formed there.
Now, I’m in the opinion that everyone has opportunities presented to them. Every generation and ever individual has something in his or her life that really opens doors. The key is just realizing that opening when it comes. So that has started me thinking... what big opportunities have opened up for me? What has happened in my life that I haven’t taken full advantage of or realize was important?
All in all... very interesting book. I highly recommend at least getting to a library and finding a copy... if not supporting Mr. Gladwell by buying it.
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