Malcolm Gladwell seemed to have disappeared from the face of the earth after 2005's Blink, his second book after the wildly successful 2000 release The Tipping Point. He dabbled in some more New Yorker articles but has only written three stories in the past year.
But he's baaaack...
He is scheduled to publish his third book on November 18, titled Outliers: The Story of Success, which rather ambitiously tries to tackle ideas about genius and achievement. Sounds like it could be a bit too self-helpy, but as someone who has poured over the New Yorker archives and emptied its Gladwell contents, I'm always down for some fresh pop-psych reading...
In any case, here's a little sneak preview in the form of a speech he gave at the 2007 New Yorker Conference . It's a little drier than some of his other talks, but hey - Gladwell at 50 percent is as good as any talking head...
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