New York Magazine, Geek Pop Star. Why Malcolm Gladwell Thinks We Have Little Control Over Our Own Succes:
“Outliers is at once Gladwell’s least and most ambitious book. Unlike The Tipping Point and Blink, which took their counterintuitiveness to extremes, the conventional wisdom Gladwell seeks to demolish in Outliers isn’t even really CW anymore. Is there anyone who still believes that “success is exclusively a matter of individual merit,” which is how Gladwell describes his straw man? And yet, as Gladwell examines all the things other than individual merit—the “hidden advantages and extraordinary opportunities and cultural legacies”—that produce hockey stars and software billionaires and math geniuses, he builds a brief for a massive reorganization of social structures and institutions that will give people who don’t have those advantages and opportunities and legacies an equal shot at success.”
Malcolm Gladwell in The New Yorker, The Uses of Adversity. Can underprivileged outsiders have an advantage?
Outliers: The Story of Success
