Malcolm Gladwell talked about his book Outliers: The Story of Success (Little, Brown and Company November 18, 2008). He is currently a staff writer for the New Yorker and was previously a business and science reporter for the Washington Post. Malcolm Gladwell is the author of The Tipping Point and Blink. Gladwell begins by exploring what we tend to think about particularly successful people: famous athletes, multi-millionaires, Nobel Prize winners, or titans of business, for example. This event was hosted by the Harvard Book Store at the First Parish Church Meetinghouse. Malcolm Gladwell’s Outliers examines the nature of success using various success stories as case studies. Gladwell responded to audience members' questions following his remarks. He contends that instead of lauding talent, one should research background and place of birth, which give a clearer picture of how people succeed in specific fields. Gladwell examines the underpinnings of success and argues that it is far more complicated than commonly understood. T18:57:26-05:00 Malcolm Gladwell talked about his book Outliers: The Story of Success (Little, Brown and Company November 18, 2008).
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