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A review by novelfables
Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell
2.0
I listened to this in Audiobook form, which is something I do to make chores a little less tedious. It didn't have that effect. My chores were still tedious. While some interesting stories about people and history kept my attention, most of the time spent with this book, my mind was drifting and not drifting on ideas sparked from this book.
While I found it interesting enough to finish it this time, I DNFd it last time and constantly wondered why I was continuing this time.
In a nutshell, what I took away from this is:
Have money, have opportunities as a child, be in the right place with the right people at the right time, and BOOM: Outlier Kismet. Oh, but also, work hard and maybe Kismet, but also not really, but maybe.
It's like a character study of many real-life people whose paths are unrelated, and yet we're trying to connect the dots that are not there.
Maybe I drifted too many times, and the point was lost on my deafened ears. This was not the book I was looking for.
The only part that spoke to me was a quote in the last ~10 minutes:
"Anger is not an option."
While I found it interesting enough to finish it this time, I DNFd it last time and constantly wondered why I was continuing this time.
In a nutshell, what I took away from this is:
Have money, have opportunities as a child, be in the right place with the right people at the right time, and BOOM: Outlier Kismet. Oh, but also, work hard and maybe Kismet, but also not really, but maybe.
It's like a character study of many real-life people whose paths are unrelated, and yet we're trying to connect the dots that are not there.
Maybe I drifted too many times, and the point was lost on my deafened ears. This was not the book I was looking for.
The only part that spoke to me was a quote in the last ~10 minutes:
"Anger is not an option."