Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell (This is Gregory Kendall)

Once more for credit, THIS IS GREGORY KENDALL.

Outliers is a book that is about socio-economic background and how it effects talented people. Malcolm Gladwell makes the claims and has very valid points to backup his information. ONe fact is that many of the very successful athletes were born in January or February and this enabled them to be bigger and stronger than their peers. Having this edge from their childhood enabled them to be so dominant for so long. Another interesting point Gladwell makes is that the reason that the Beatles were so big and talented was the fact that they lived in Germany during a musical revolution that the West had not heard of. They were able to take these talents and styles and be successful in the UK and the rest of the West. The final big statement he makes is tha Bill Gates, Steve Wozniak, Bill Hewlett, David Packard, and Steve Jobs are all about the same age. When they were starting their companies they had just graduated college but had not started familes yet. This made it easy for them to take the risks that were necessary to create their hardware and their business. Overall it is a very depressing book. You could feel like you will never be successful because you don't fit his positions but I don't. My ego and ability is too great to be silenced by some author. Other than that, it's a great book. Read It!!!!