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7.05.2010

Outliers

by Malcolm Gladwell

OMG! as my teens would say.
This book was amazing, I can't wait to read another by Gladwell.
In it, each chapter is dedicated to those individuals or groups of individuals, that stand apart as unique and exceptional. Everything from professional hockey players to Bill Gates, to a town of Italian immigrants to Jewish lawyers.
He examines who they are and how that got that way and in the most unique manner.
He's a former journalist, specializing in business and science, so he knows research and numbers and technical facts. But he has a gift for writing about very detailed stuff in a very simple, story-telling manner.
Very impressive.

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