Outliers: The Story of Success Paperback – Aug 2013

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Voted #1 in the list of most mind expanding books by life hack.

22 August 2016

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You will be convinced after completion of this book, that if Bill Gates was not born in 1950's he wouldn't be what he is now.This book reveals many ideas which completely change the way you look at people who succeed. The author explains that all those who succeed i.e., earn Name, Fame and Money, apart from being highly talented and hard working they also enjoyed the benefits of some arbitrary advantages which led to their success. Must Read.

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5 June 2017

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Now I will look at super successful people in a different way. This book tells that no one succeeds by sheer talent. You need a little dose of good luck, here and there. Nicely explained with very good examples. It reminds me of The Secret book. It basically says that the harder you work, the luckier you will get.

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Its a fantastic book and Author has done lot and lot of ...

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Devraj Singh

24 October 2017

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Its a fantastic book and Author has done lot and lot of research before writing the book. The famous 10000 hours rule was coined by Malcolm only. In his book, he showed why anyone is successful and he proved that talent alone doesn't guarantee success, situation, and luck too play major role. Its a kind of an eye-opener.

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18 August 2017

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Author has done credible analysis connecting external / situational parameters as important contribution to successful people mentioned in the book. This redefines the way we look at success. One can say after reading this book " Hard work + Opportunity + conducive envirnoment = success of outliers"

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A good book with analysis

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Akhil Reddy D

31 December 2017

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This a fantastic book. I would summarize it as “you are born with disadvantages you are not aware of but through hardwork like this disadvantage can be nullified, may be you may not become an outlier as it’s entirely because of luck but you’ll be happy with what you got”

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19 December 2017

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Had huge expectation when I started this book. But it gave me a new experience. This book contains lots of stories, statistics. Gave me a new perception to look world events. Looks more like a compilation of research papers than a book. Writing is good. But it left me an emptiness that I have not learnt something largely as a revelation.

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19 October 2016

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As a math lover I had always looked for patterns in questions, relating them with the most simplest of forms.. but never had I thought there would be a pattern for success right from birth to the grain size of the soil they were born at :p. Most of the inferences and conclusions were not shocking, but the details and facts that supported them were. Still I had always believed in the fact that "opportunities are everywhere, you just have to look, if u can't find it look harder and then repeat" - #Myownwords.. :)

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Pardaman Singh

Poor quality paper and print!!

Very poor quality paper and blurry text like counterfeit books sold on the streets!

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Vir

Excellent read. Amazed at all the number crunching done ...

Excellent read. Amazed at all the number crunching done by the author for top performers in various fields around the globe.

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Ashwin

Must read to go beyond obvious

Malcom takes one beyond the obvious reasons that make the greats n the genius what they became.
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Published 20 days ago

The letters are so small that you will feel pain while reading the book. Don't buy Hindi version. U will regret

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Initially interesting but gets monotonic in the end

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