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Outliers

by Malcolm Gladwell I have been negligent in regards to my MSTA book blog. Most of my recently read books have not been science related, but great books. This book actually came on my new, but used Kindle. So I read it. I learned so much about people, and thereby, teaching from this book that I wish every teacher would read it. It is about patterns, in numbers, in culture, in dates, in successes. Stories from Bill Gates, to Korean Air plane crashes. The 10,000 hour rule to being good at anything jumped out at me. The only thing I may have spent 10,000 hours in is reading, and maybe crocheting, and definitely teaching. I liked this book so much, that I have downloaded Gladwell's other books to my Kindle. I'll report on those soon!