Outliers the story of success is a 2008 book by journalist and author malcolm gladwell in this book gladwell dives into what makes the most successful people so good at what they do and discovers the commonalities they have which provided them with opportunities to succeed a 3 minute summary of the 15 core lessons 1 success comes from lots . Outliers short summary outliers by malcolm gladwell is a book that explores the hidden forces behind successful people gladwell shows that as much as talent and hard work are responsible for many of the success stories that we see and hear there is much more to success than meets the eye. Menu book summary outliers the story of success by malcolm gladwell 15 september 2013 on book summaries this is the second llb book summary on a malcolm gladwell book we previously summarized tipping pointhis books are proving consistently thought provoking