Book title: Outliers
Author: Malcolm Gladwell
Category: Non-fiction, Self Help
Number of pages: 309
What it's about: The author examines the stories of some of the most successful people in history and reveals some surprising insight behind their success.
What I liked best: The fact that Malcom Gladwell brings a realistic perspective to success made this book interesting: all of the "outliers" featured didn't succeed on their own - they had help, and they also didn't succeed overnight - they worked hard.
What I think: This is a good book to read in the early years of one's adult life, because one of the key common threads in all of the success stories featured is amount of time put towards one's goals (as in, there is no such thing as an overnight success). There seems to be an average time frame of about ten years of effort before big rewards begin to surface.
My rating: 4 stars
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