Queen Langosh
Gladwell's overall message about success is described early in the book, where he says
that to understand how very successful people (i.e., "outliers") become successful, we
have to look outside the person themselves, at "the culture he or she is a part of . . .
who their families were, and what towns their families come from." We "have to
appreciate the idea that the values of the culture we inhabit and the people we surround
ourselves have a profound effect on who we are." In the context of success, this means that
successful people "don't rise from nothing." Their surroundings are as central to
their success as their hard work, intelligence, and other characteristics we traditionally
associate with very successful people, especially in the United States.
What
we should be asking when we look at the very successful is not what they are like, but rather
"where they are from." Hard work, intelligence, skill, and other factors are essential
to the success of these "outliers," and he...
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