Learn what sets high achievers apart -- from bill gates to the beatles -- in this #1 bestseller from "A singular talent" (New York Times book review). In this stunning book, Malcolm Gladwell takes us on an intellectual journey through the world of "Outliers"--the best and the brightest, the most famous and the most successful. He asks the question: what makes high-achievers different?

 His answer is that we pay too much attention to what successful people are like, and too little attention to where they are from: that is, their culture, their family, their generation, and the idiosyncratic experiences of their upbringing. Along the way he explains the secrets of software billionaires, what it takes to be a great soccer player, why asians are good at math, and what made the beatles the greatest rock band. Brilliant and entertaining, outliers is a landmark work that will simultaneously delight and illuminate.