About the author

Malcolm Gladwell is the author of my Novel, Outliers. He writes mostly about success and how it is achieved. Two other books he wrote are The Tipping Point and Blink.  

He was born in England and his father described him as a single minded kid. He was fascinated by his mothers writings and she became his role model. Later in life he became an internship with the National Journalism center in Washington. 

After college he did not have good enough grades to go to graduate school. He took a job at the American Spectator. After 10 years of working their he felt like he mastered writing and started working for the New Yorker. This is about the time where he wrote the Outliers.

Outliers summary

I am currently reading Outliers for my independent reading novel. I decided to change books at the last second because my dad recommended this book to me. It is written my Malcolm Gladwell who is also the author The Tipping Point and Blink. These books are all about success and how it is achieved. In Outliers, he takes some of the most successful people and shows how that person succeeded. He looks at people like Bill Gates, The Beatles, Bill Joy, and The Medicine Hat Tigers. He finds patterns in there success. One thing that he found is that the best of the best practice 10,000+ hours until they are the best at whatever they do. 

To be successful, you need more than talent. You have to have opportunities and practice. The Beatles had the Opportunity to preform 40 hours a week at Hamburg which gave them plenty of practice all because they had the opportunity. Malcolm Gladwell talks about this in the first two parts of his book. I would recommend this book to everyone because of the lessons it teaches.