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2018 in Books #1 : Outliers

My membership at the Evanston Public Library is my best-worst decision. Best, because I now have e-books delivered right into my Kindle without having me trudge in snow to borrow or return a book and the worst, because it is going to make me lazy and unfit.  Cut to the chase, Outliers has been a good start to 2018. At a modest 300 odd pages, Malcolm Gladwell writes a deeply researched and critically analysed account of success stories that we know of.  | The biggest takeaway you can get from Outliers  is the "other side" of stories, which are often ignored for the sake of glorification of the achievement. | It was enjoyable to see how tiny, seemingly inconsequential factors can help a person go a long way. A popular example the book talks about is Bill Gates' rise as a billionaire when he was a college dropout.  Treating his story superficially has led to popularizing the opinion, "hey, Bill Gates, Steve Jobs and Mark Zuckerberg were college drop outs
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Growing Up with AM

Fluorescent Adolescent by the Arctic Monkeys played on my iPod.

The 2 minutes and 57 seconds that followed were throwback. Favourite Worst Nightmare and Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not were albums that resonated strongly with my teenage years. Rebellious and jarring in a way my head thinks.

But, in 2013 the Arctic Monkeys released a masterpiece called AM and in that I could see how much they've grown. The music and lyrics had matured, so had they and so had I.

I feel the journeys paralleled each other, mine and theirs and for this they hold a special place in my mind. Mad sounds in your ears.

 PS: And also because I now associate AM with someone I met recently! ;)

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