A brilliant new book from the bestselling author of The Tipping Point and Blink Why are people successful? For centuries, humankind has grappled with this question, searching for the secret to accomplishing great things. In this stunning new book, Malcolm Gladwell takes us on an invigorating intellectual journey to show us what makes an extreme overachiever. He reveals that we pay far too much attention to what successful people are like, and too little attention to where successful people are from: their culture, their family, and their generation. Gladwell examines how the careers of Bill Gates and the performance of world-class football players are alike; what top fighter pilots and The Beatles have in common; why so many top lawyers are Jewish; why Asians are good at maths; and why it is correct to say that the mathematician who solved Fermat's Theorem is not a genius. Just as he did in Blink, Gladwell overturns many of our conventional notions and creates an entirely new model for seeing the world. Brilliant and entertaining, this is a landmark work that will simultaneously delight and illuminate.

馬爾科姆·格拉德威爾（Malcolm Gladwell），被《快公司》譽為“21世紀的彼得·德魯剋”，曾是《華盛頓郵報》商務科學專欄作傢，目前是《紐約客》雜誌專職作傢。

馬爾科姆齣生於英格蘭，是牙買加人的後裔。在加拿大長大，現居紐約市。他曾經做過衛生政策和科學新聞方麵的記者，其文章喜歡以小見大。馬爾科姆是一個非常有創意的作傢，他認為自己的文風屬於一種adventure of ideas的風格，雖然大部分作品都不屬於虛構，又不是圍繞一個人物或者一個故事展開，但其中的故事情節卻一般比較麯摺，看他的文章很有adventure波瀾起伏的韻味。