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Why are people successful? For centuries, humankind has grappled with this question, searching for the secret to accomplishing great things. In this stunning new book, Malcolm Gladwell takes us on an invigorating intellectual journey to show us what makes an extreme overachiever. He reveals that we pay far too much attention to what successful people are like, and too little attention to where successful people are from: their culture, their family, and their generation. Gladwell examines how the careers of Bill Gates and the performance of world-class football players are alike; what top fighter pilots and The Beatles have in common; why so many top lawyers are Jewish; why Asians are good at maths; and why it is correct to say that the mathematician who solved Fermat's Theorem is not a genius. Just as he did in Blink, Gladwell overturns many of our conventional notions and creates an entirely new model for seeing the world. Brilliant and entertaining, this is a landmark work that will simultaneously delight and illuminate.
Genre:
Sociology
Publishing house:
Penguin Books Ltd
Binding:
Paperback
Author:
Malcolm Gladwell
Pages::
384
language:
English
Метка:
Bestseller, Ekspress
Weight, gr:
221,00
Product reviews 1
The most revelatory book i have ever read. It shows success from a whole new perspective, analyzing opportunities, backgrounds, and legacies.
Why Asians are so good at mathematics? Why the smartest person in the world accomplished far less than those with a lower IQ than him? Why does our upbringing matter? What type of impact do our great-great-great-grandparents have on us? What is threshold of intelligence? Why, in the 90s, did Korean Air crash their planes seventeen times more than the United States Airlines? How does the place where we are raised affect us? What is the correlation between rice paddies and mathematics?
All of the questions mentioned above and so many more are answered in the 335 pages of this masterpiece.
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