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Fortune, it is said, favors the bold. And best-selling author Malcolm Gladwell is certainly bold.
In his latest chart-topper, “Outliers,” Gladwell sets out to change our perception of success by showing that we must “appreciate the idea that the values of the world we inhabit and the people we surround ourselves with have a profound effect on who we are.”
Throughout the book, Gladwell does an entertaining job of peeling back the onion. Bill Gates is a success not simply because he’s smart, Gladwell writes, he’s a success because of when and where he...
Why Winners Win
I am reminded of an old joke; during WW 2 an old feeble jew who was not yet in a camp, was nonetheless forced to come every day to the camp and work. He was paid a pittance upon which no human could live on, yet every he came to work looking as fit as could be for a man his age. Finally when the allies came and liberated the camp, the commandant happened to be run into the elderly...