Outliers...What do you think?

First Summer Book....Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell

The first book I'm going to read is Outliers; The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell.   Some of the members of the BHS Book Club are taking AP Lit, and they were assigned this book.  So....I decided to promote this book as our first book of the Summer.  Here's a summary.....

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. He asks the question: what makes high-achievers different?

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. 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. 

Join us.  I will keep you posted on my reading!  Talk Soon!