![]() ![]() It’s not only our environment and the people we surround ourselves with that matters but also when we are born. But to get there, Wolf had to “appreciate the idea that the values of the world we inhabit and the people we surround ourselves with have a profound effect on who we are,” Gladwell explains. Since then, the Roseto Effect has been widely cited as evidence for the positive effects of social cohesion and support on longevity. What Wolf found was that “…the Rosetans had created a powerful, protective social structure capable of insulating them from the pressures of the modern world”. This while neighbours in Bangor and Nazareth showed a higher incidence of illness and heart attack. Wolf had studied Italian immigrants living in Roseto, Pennsylvania, from 1935 to 1985 to investigate why rarely anyone from Roseto under the age of sixty-five had heart disease. Gladwell wants to change our idea of success just as Dr Stewart Wolf had changed our understanding of health. In Outliers, Gladwell examines our understanding of success by looking at a successful person’s circumstances. ![]() ![]() a statistical observation that is markedly different in value from the others of the sample.something that is situated away from or classed differently from a main or related body. ![]() I ordered Outliers and Blink, and since I apparently can’t read his books in chronological order, I started with Outliers. After reading Talking to Strangers, I wanted to read all of Gladwell’s books. ![]()
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