When we were all outliers...
Dear Dreamers, Over the last year, I read a few books that kept bringing me back to each other, they weren’t similar in concept, and yet they made me realize one thing over and over again.. this- Circumstance, opportunity and our history are the reason we become the people we are. The three books were- Outliers (by Malcolm Gladwell), Einstein’s wife ( by Andrea Gabor) and Half the Sky ( by Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn). While Outliers is an explanation of how success of the outliers of the world depends as much on their surrounding culture as much on their true genius, Half the Sky is a plea to take action against the most heinous crimes against women around the world and to protect these women against the most macabre human rights violation of our age. Einstein’s Wife ( a loan from my aunt) chronicles the work and lives of five great 20 th century women in the fields of science, art, architecture and the judiciary. Outliers is the story of the unexpecte...