This is not just an important but an imperative project: to approach the problem of randomness and success using the state-of-the-art scientific arsenal we have. BarabÌÁsi is the personIt's rare that a book about success turns out to be such a page-turner, but there you go. File [
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OutliersA fascinating new bookA fun, fast, first-hand account of efforts to use big data to pull back the curtain on our collective dynamics.
The Formula offers a rich tour of research on how relatively simple feedback forces channel our lives in surprising and counter-intuitive waysIf you are currently at the top of your field, but you want to knock everyone else off the mountain, BarabÌÁsi will tell you how. And if you're not quite there yet, these laws might give you something to think about on the way upWriting in a lively fashion, he illuminates broad principles that explain how people in all fields ‰ÛÒ from entrepreneurs to scientists to athletes to artists ‰ÛÒ achieve success.In his new book, Laszlo BarabÌÁsi delights us with the stories and mechanisms that explain success in our achievement-obsessed societyBarabÌÁsi will indelibly transform the way we all think about success
The Formula is an important book for us all to read. It weaves together meticulously researched historical context with more than a decade of BarabÌÁsi's and other scholars' "eureka moments" and research findings to extract scientific principles and actionable insights for achieving success
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The ground-breaking international bestseller that reveals the indisputable scientific laws that can turn your achievements into success and how to use them to your own advantage.
In The Formula, BarabÌÁsi, one of the world's leading experts on the science of networks, reveals the unspoken rules behind who truly gets ahead and why, and outlines the five laws that govern this phenomenon and how we can use them to our own advantage.
Drawing on Big Data research that covers everyone from the ace fighter pilot The Red Baron to graffiti artist Jean-Michel Basquiat; Miles Davis and his recording of 'Kind of Blue' to Marcel Duchamps and Tiger Woods, Barabasi, shows why success can come at any time, as long as we are persistent, why in successful teams one person gets the lion share of the credit and why the last interviewee almost always gets the job.
Unveiling the scientific principles that drive success, and how to leverage them, Barabasi offers a new understanding of the very foundation of how people excel in today's society, and how to harness these principles for yourself.
Albert-LÌÁszlÌ? BarabÌÁsi is the Robert Gray Dodge Professor of Network Science and a Distinguished University Professor at Northeastern University, where he directs the Center for Complex Network Research and holds appointments in the Department of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and the Central European University in Budapest. A native of Transylvania, Romania, he received his Masters in Theoretical Physics at the E̦tv̦s University in Budapest, Hungary and PhD at Boston University. BarabÌÁsi's latest book,
Bursts: The Hidden Pattern Behind Everything We Do (Dutton, 2010), is available in five languages. His previous book,
Linked: The New Science of Networks (Perseus, 2002), is currently available in fifteen languages. He is the author of
Network Science (Cambridge, 2016) and the co-editor of
The Structure and Dynamics of Networks (Princeton, 2005).Introduction - Introduction: Success Isn't About You. It's About Us. Chapter - 1: The Red Baron and the Forgotten Ace Section - The First Law: Performance drives success, but when performance can‰۪t be measured, networks drive success. Chapter - 2: Grand Slams and College Diplomas Chapter - 3: The $2 Million Urinal Section - The Second Law: Performance is bounded, but success is unbounded. Chapter - 4: How Much Is a Bottle of Wine Worth? Chapter - 5: Superstars and Power Laws Section - The Third Law: Previous success x fitness = future success. Chapter - 6: Exploding Kittens and Sock Puppets Chapter - 7: The Ear of the Beholder Section - The Fourth Law: While team success requires diversity and balance, a single individual will receive credit for the group‰۪s achievements. Chapter - 8: Kind of Conventional, Kind of Innovative, Kind of Blue Chapter - 9: The Algorithm That Found the Overlooked Scientist Section - The Fifth Law: With persistence success can come at any time. Chapter - 10: Einstein‰۪s Error
