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Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell
BATB score: 8.5/10 Outliers like Bill Gates are merely ordinary people who got lucky, who got an opportunity to get a head start, and who completed 10,000 hours diligently. Best for: 'Your success today owes up to whether your great grandpapa was a farmer.' If this statement, made you go "huh?" or "wad?", then go read this book. Best as: a reminder that maybe all those cool people (Taylor Swift, Mark Zuckerburg, Isaac Newton) just got lucky. Best to: tell people that you have


Talking to Strangers by Malcolm Gladwell
BATB Score: 1/10 The book cover is misleading #fakenews You kind of expect Malcolm's behavioral economics and techniques to talk to strangers when it's more of documentary anecdotes on how we don't know the people around us. #strangersassemble Best for: those who spark joy from the CIA fooled, the pedophile getting lucky, the innocent arrested, and just on and on case studies. Best as: a Netflix 45 minutes documentary #TBC #bookstagram Best to: watch the Netflix documentary i
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