Malcolm Gladwell Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ===''Outliers''=== {{Main|Outliers (book)}} Gladwell's third book, ''Outliers'', published in 2008, examines how a person's environment, in conjunction with personal drive and motivation, affects his or her possibility and opportunity for success. Gladwell's original question revolved around lawyers: "We take it for granted that there's this guy in New York who's the corporate lawyer, right? I just was curious: Why is it all the same guy?", referring to the fact that "a surprising number of the most powerful and successful corporate lawyers in New York City have almost the exact same biography".<ref>{{Cite web |title=Q and A with Malcolm |url=http://gladwell.com/outliers/outliers-q-and-a-with-malcolm/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171110154713/http://gladwell.com/outliers/outliers-q-and-a-with-malcolm/ |archive-date=10 November 2017 |access-date=14 April 2021 |website=Gladwell.com }}</ref><ref name=timeoutliers/> In another example given in the book, Gladwell noticed that people ascribe [[Bill Gates]]'s success to being "really smart" or "really ambitious". He noted that he knew a lot of people who are really smart and really ambitious, but not worth $60 billion. "It struck me that our understanding of success was really crude—and there was an opportunity to dig down and come up with a better set of explanations." Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page