Outliers The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell’s

      Outliers: The Story of Success is Malcolm Gladwell’s third consecutive best-selling nonfiction book, following Tipping Point (2000) and Blink (2005)examines opportunity as a function of timing.

      Examines opportunity as a function of timing 

•   Canadian hockey players born closer to the magic birthday of January 1 reap advantages that compound over time

       Focuses on cultural legacies

•   Appalachia to the rice paddy cultivation in China that fosters patient problem solving 
• he illustrates how a cultural legacy of failure can be transformed into one of success

       What the book are trying to tell us:- 

• hard work is critical to success 
• successful people were often lucky to be in the right place at the right time.
• 10000 hours of working on skills seems to be a rule of thumb

A book by Malcolm Gladwell is unlikely to :

• require analytical thinking
• tell you something you don’t already know
•  make a statement that you might disagree with.