Outliers
Outliers -The story of success by Malcom Gladwell We all have grown up reading the rags to riches stories, success stories of ordinary people turned Outliers. We all have seen the ‘Heads’ part of these achievers but Malcom has managed to observe and show us the ‘Tails’ part of these stories. That’s what the book is all about. In the book Malcom has used convincing statistics, interesting observations and great simplicity in the diversified examples of the counterintuitive factors of the distinct cases. Case I Roseto Volfortore, a town near Rome has people with very good health. In Roseto, virtually no one under fifty-five has died of a heart attack. For men over sixty five, the death rate from heart disease in Roseto is half that of the US as a whole. The death rate in fact from all causes is 30% to 35% lower than the anticipated. In the survey it was found that there was no suicide, no alcoholism, no drug addiction and very little crime. The people were dying of old age...