Outliers

A while ago I read Malcolm Gladwell's The Tipping Point and enjoyed it.  Now I just finished Outliers and found it equally interesting.  Gladwell writes clearly about big ideas, and Outliers focuses on what makes highly successful people so successful.  The thesis is fairly simple - people who are in a position to take advantage of opportunities and do so are more likely to be successful in life.  One of those opportunities is being smart enough to recognize such chances, but also to work at it.

Of course, that it a quite dry and boring summary of an entertaining book filled with real-life stories from various times and places.

Now I am going to read his other books, too.