![]() The palace of the Saggese family, once the great landowner of those parts. Facing the square is the Palazzo Marchesale, ![]() The style of medieval villages, the town is organized around a large central square. Roseto Valfortore lies one hundred miles southeast of Rome in the Apennine foothills of the Italian province of Foggia. THAT'S IT."ġ: something that is situated away from or classed differently from a main or related bodyĢ: a statistical observation that is markedly different in value from the others of the sample Along the way he explains the secrets of software billionaires, what it takes to be a great soccer player, why Asians are good at math, and what made the Beatles the greatest rock band.īrilliant and entertaining, Outliers is a landmark work that will simultaneously delight and illuminate. His answer is that we pay too much attention to what successful people are like, and too little attention to where they are from: that is, their culture, their family, their generation, and the idiosyncratic experiences of their upbringing. He asks the question: what makes high-achievers different? ![]() ![]() In this stunning book, Malcolm Gladwell takes us on an intellectual journey through the world of "outliers"-the best and the brightest, the most famous and the most successful. Malcolm Gladwell, bestselling author of Blink and The Bomber Mafia and host of the podcast Revisionist History, explores what sets high achievers apart-f rom Bill Gates to the Beatles- in this seminal work from "a singular talent" ( New York Times Book Review). ![]()
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