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Drawing upon examples from the world of business, sports, culture, cutting-edge psychology and an array of unforgettable characters around the world, the author of The Tipping Point, Blink and Outliers looks at the complex and surprising ways in which the weak can defeat the strong, how the small can match up against the giant, and how our goals (often culturally determined) can make a huge difference in our ultimate sense of success.
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In Second World War Poland, a young prisoner closes his eyes and pictures going to bat on a sunlit English cricket ground ... Across the yard of a Victorian poorhouse, a man is too ashamed to acknowledge the son he gave away ... In a 19th-century French village, an old servant understands - suddenly and with awe - the meaning of the Bible story her master is reading to her ... On a summer evening in the Catskills in 1971, a skinny girl steps out of...
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