[lbo-talk] Gladwell: The Difference Between Movements and Networks

Andy andy274 at gmail.com
Sun Oct 3 05:41:16 PDT 2010


On Sat, Oct 2, 2010 at 10:25 PM, <123hop at comcast.net> wrote:


> ...anyway. I'd say this is partly the New Yorker cocktail party chatter format, but Outliers was a book, and he could have raised the level above chatter, and he really ultimately doesn't go beyond saying something lightly dangerous.

I dunno. There were some flaws in the details, but I was struck how a mainstream book in the US could have the central thesis that circumstances trump talent and application. Or is your point that I was filling in the blanks?

-- Andy



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