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    Study Guide - Outliers: The Story of Success (A BookCaps Study Guide)
    Study Guide - Outliers: The Story of Success (A BookCaps Study Guide)
    Study Guide - Outliers: The Story of Success (A BookCaps Study Guide)
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    Malcolm Gladwell's "Outliers: The Story of Success" packs a lot of concepts into a short space; if it's been awhile sense you read the book or if you just need a quick refresher, let us help.
    This study guide explains all the key concepts and people in the book, as well as gives a summary of what's learned in each chapter.
    BookCap Study Guides do not contain text from the actual book, and are not meant to be purchased as alternatives to reading the book.
    We all need refreshers every now and then. Whether you are a student trying to cram for that big final, or someone just trying to understand a book more, BookCaps can help. We are a small, but growing company, and are adding titles every month.

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    Release dateMay 11, 2012
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    Study Guide - Outliers: The Story of Success (A BookCaps Study Guide)
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      Study Guide - Outliers - BookCaps

      Malcolm Gladwell’s

      Outliers:

      The Story of Success

      Golgotha Press

      By BookCaps Study Guides

      © 2011 by Golgotha Press, Inc.

      Published at SmashWords

      www.bookcaps.com

      Historical Background

      Malcolm Gladwell is the bestselling author of The Tipping Point, Blink, Outliers, and What the Dog Saw. Born in 1963 in London to mathematics professor Graham Gladwell and author and family therapist Joyce Gladwell, he grew up in the Canadian countryside. After graduating from the University of Toronto, he worked as a reporter for the Washington Post for nine years, afterwards becoming the newspaper’s New York City bureau chief. From 1996 onward, he has been a staff writer for the New Yorker. He has been called one the 100 Most Influential People by Time Magazine.

      In his explanation of why he wrote the book, Gladwell begins by defining the word outlier as a scientific term used to denote things which lie outside normal experience. Dissatisfied with crude explanations of success, Gladwell’s goal in Outliers was to explore the reasons behind the extraordinary people he termed outliers. He noticed that our culture had a tendency to attribute outstanding success to some unusual individual quality or qualities. Yet he knew many people with extraordinary abilities or character traits whose success didn’t mirror that of a genuine outlier—one whose accomplishments soared beyond his or her environment.

      Gladwell does not discount the role of the individual, but he maintains that there are a surprising number of patterns to be found within specific careers or types of success such as extraordinary wealth. Nor does he just examine extraordinary success: he delves into the reasons for failure and disaster as well because of the valuable lessons we can learn from extreme situations. In Outliers, Gladwell is interested in the relationship between events and their subtle causes—in the attitudes, structures, conditions, and legacies that can either hinder or help a person to move forward in life or in specific circumstances.

      The last chapter of Outliers is a tribute to the legacy of Gladwell’s own background and the opportunities that were handed down from his grandmother to his mother and then to him. It is an exploration of the factors that have enabled his own and his family’s success as well as an expression of gratitude to the specific individuals and the broader context that enabled it. And finally, Outliers is an expression of hope—the hope that by seeing our attitudes and social structures more clearly, we can shape a better world for all.

      Plot Summary

      At the beginning of Outliers, Malcolm Gladwell makes it clear to us that this is a book about success—and not just any kind of success, but success in the world. For many of us, that usually conjures up images of extraordinary fame and fortune—billions of dollars, recognition, important positions, fancy homes, glamorous careers, outstanding achievement, and so on. But as the book progresses, we come to realize that, although some or even all of those factors may be present, Gladwell’s concept of success is actually quite specific and somewhat deeper in its import. In Chapter 5, he introduces us to the notion of meaningful work, which he defines as having three key elements: autonomy, complexity, and a clear correlation between effort and reward. By the time we reach the end of the book, we realize that this definition of success probably means more to him than any other aspect of success in the world. In the acknowledgments, he states—again, very clearly—that this is a book about the meaning of work and that he learned its meaning from his father, who approached everything he did with joy, energy, and enthusiasm.

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