Summary, Analysis, and Review of Malcolm Gladwell's Outliers: The Story of Success

by Start Publishing Notes

PLEASE This is a key takeaways and analysis of the book and NOT the original book. Start Publishing Notes’ Summary, Analysis, and Review of Malcolm Gladwell's The Story of Success includes a summary of the book, review, analysis & key takeaways, and detailed “About the Author” section. Malcolm Gladwell's The Story of Success argues that success is not solely the result of merit and hard work. Rather, Gladwell says extremely successful people are successful because they were in the right place at the right time, or because they received crucial help. In order to understand success, it is important to look not at the characteristics of the individual, but at the social and cultural factors that enable success.Sports are often seen as a uniquely meritocratic endeavor. People believe that the most physically talented athletes are the most successful. However, this is not true. In fact, in Canada, children whose birthdays fall just before the cut off date for participation in youth leagues have a huge advantage. These children are the oldest ones in their leagues, and so are most developed, and are stronger and faster than their peers. In Canada, this means that they are chosen to move into more advanced teams and leagues, and so get more practice and training. As a result, almost all professional hockey players in Canada have birthdays clustered around the dates just before the youth league cut offs. The professional players all have great talent, and all work hard. However, what truly made them outliers was not work or skill, but the accident of their birthdays.

Genres: Self Help

33 pages, Kindle Edition

Published October 9, 2017

Reviews

[Bryon Howard · Rating 3 out of 5]

I didn't actually read this Summary of Mark Manson's The Sutle Art of Not Giving a Fuck ... but I Listened to his book. For some reason I cannot find the actual book here.

Like every book ... there are take aways. However, I find myself asking myself why am I listening to this moron talk about his vagabond interests and much more as if I should think that is cool, interesting, or 'the life'.

Probably for the under 40 year group who are a bit stuck, this might be interesting.

Mark's message of identifying your values and living them ... basically knowing what to give a fuck about ... is old information presented with swear words. It's sort of funny.

[Nick Brown · Rating 4 out of 5]

What I like the most about this book is that my initial thought of; "This will be a good read- I'll probably get a provoking thought or two out of it", turned into, "Wow. This book has literally changed my life, for the better." Since I've finished it, I recommended it to four people, two of which have acquired the book, and I even got an extra copy as a gift for a friend. I intend to read this book every couple years or so for the times I need to be reminded of what improved my life so much in the first place. This is an easy read- yet written on a sophisticated level (despite the title), and I looked forward to every bit of free time I could dedicate to reading it. There were times I laughed, got teary eyed, and most importantly said, "hmmm, I never thought of it like that before..." I recommend this book to anyone who is open to changing their mindset, and can understand irony. Obviously the title is not instructing the reader to stop taking care in interest in EVERYTHING, so if that thought never crossed your mind upon reading the title, then I suggest you read this.
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[Viet Vu · Rating 5 out of 5]

Stop being Mr. Nice guy. That's what I have been told. But I have never realized how to do that and how serious the problem is.

Keep only what matters, what really matters. Stop the bullshit. Face the unpleasant truths. Embrace death (do not suicide though). These are my lessons from this book.

Like `The Alchemist`, I recommend this book for anyone, especially young adults.

[Julie Bryant · Rating 4 out of 5]

interesting. i like the part where they remind you that you're not suppsed to be happy and think you're doing just great all the time. Americans tend to forget that.

[Dean Wade · Rating 4 out of 5]

Where is the actual book? Interesting self help. Not sure where my fucks are these days.

[Priya Chokkakula · Rating 4 out of 5]

it was very good at the start, but was confusing through out! overall it was worth reading!

[Prapannaa Acharya · Rating 4 out of 5]

A must read for those people who are looking at their life through other peoples' eyes....a very interesting book....

[Faye · Rating 3 out of 5]

Funny and refreshingly honest

[Shanice Hinds · Rating 1 out of 5]

Manson attemps to tear down the soundly built boundaries of life while being ridiculously realistic with a "fuck" here and a "fuck" there. I dislike self-help books but it was so well written that I had to keep on reading while memorzing and actually using his quite logical and pragmatic words of wisdom.

[krystal lea · Rating 5 out of 5]

absolutly love this book only halfway through it already and i cant seem to put it down .its very honestly,brutally truthful, and digs dig into places people dont want to face in themselves to make them feel better about unresolved issues in life...

[cley.unnie · Rating 4 out of 5]

It is a really interesting book. This book is about not always finding positive things in life if you want to be happy. In order to be happy you must get through and solve the problems in life.

[Yamen Arhim · Rating 4 out of 5]

written for the young adults and teenagers i say it's very great books for those who are just starting their life and have common teenager problems

[Cassandra]

Read actual book not summary

[Raygun ∆ Gothic · Rating 3 out of 5]

My first attempt to read one of these summary books. I didn't expect the summarizer to be so personally critical.
The summarizer OWNS the privileged f*ck who wrote this book in a hilarious manner. The summarizer points out that the intended audience of the original work is other middle to upper-class white men. He decries millennial victimhood (author is a millennial), fear of failure, and helicopter parenting. He criticizes our need to be exceptional.