Hi again Paperback Princesses!

So the time has come for our second book club selection, and this time the choice was up to our lovely hostess, Kathleen.

Kathleen has chosen Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell.

Here is a brief description of the book:

In this wide-ranging third installment of Malcolm Gladwell's exploration of how people and social phenomena work, the New Yorker journalist takes a close look at what constitutes high levels of success. That is, what makes people at the top of their respective fields get there? As we've come to expect from Gladwell's previous books, the answer to the question is a bit complicated.

He says that upbringing, culture and even random luck have something to with success, but there is another important quality that anyone can control. Two chapters are dedicated to the "revelation" that IQ is only a baseline quality and success has little to nothing to do with having a high IQ or a low IQ. Rather, success is substantially a product of cultivating a high degree of what Robert Sternberg calls "practical intelligence" or what most refer to as "emotional intelligence."

This book sounds like a great read! Thaks Kathleen for making a great pick for our second book.

Check your inboxes soon for the book club schedule and information on the next party. See you in February!

S