Publisher's Synopsis
This summary is a separate companion to Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell. Have you ever bought a book with the intention of making positive changes in your life, and then a month later nothing has changed? A month after you've finished reading the book, life gets busy, and you forget many of the important ideas you've just read. Use this summary to quickly review the most important ideas from the book and get back on track to achieving the positive life-changing results you bought the book to obtain. Millions of people worldwide use book summaries to quickly re-learn important concepts from the books they've read.
How do people reach the highest levels of achievement? How do the most famous and successful people do it? What makes someone the best and the brightest? What makes the world's most successful people different from everyone else? Learn these answers to these questions and more. Find out what it takes to reach the top levels of accomplishment.
Summary Table of Contents:
The Fallacy of the Self-Made Person
Natural Talents and Abilities Will Only Get You So Far
Mastery of a Skill Requires 10,000 Hours of Practice
You Need the Opportunity to Be Successful
Your Relative Age Can Be the Difference between Success and Failure
The Country You Were Born in Determines What You Can Be Successful In
Social Aptitude is More Important than Skill Level
The Year You Were Born Determines What You Can Be Successful In
To Make Opportunities for Success More Equal in Society
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Please note: This is a separate companion summary of the most important ideas from the book - not the original full-length book.
