The Formula: The Five Laws Behind Why People Succeed
Nov 2018 · Pan Macmillan
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A smart, readable account of the unexpected scientific principles that drive success' – Financial Times
The Formula is the groundbreaking book that reveals the indisputable scientific laws that turn achievements into success and shows how you can use them to your own advantage.
In The Formula, Albert-László Barabasi, one of the world's leading experts on the science of networks, reveals the unspoken rules behind who gets ahead and why, and outline the five laws that govern this phenomenon and how we can use them to succeed.
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 Duchamp 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's 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.
The Formula is the groundbreaking book that reveals the indisputable scientific laws that turn achievements into success and shows how you can use them to your own advantage.
In The Formula, Albert-László Barabasi, one of the world's leading experts on the science of networks, reveals the unspoken rules behind who gets ahead and why, and outline the five laws that govern this phenomenon and how we can use them to succeed.
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 Duchamp 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's 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.
A smart, readable account of the unexpected scientific principles that drive success' – Financial Times
The Formula is the groundbreaking book that reveals the indisputable scientific laws that turn achievements into success and shows how you can use them to your own advantage.
In The Formula, ...
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Kgotso Koete
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March 31, 2019
The most practical and analytical explanation about the drivers of success. A lot of the laws discussed I have seen when interacting with colleagues in social circles like corporates, entrepreneurs, to my short time in Hollywood. This offers the most intuitive explanation of how someone becomes a pop star like Justin Bieber, or a CEO of a public company or a rap legend when hip hop was being born in New York. I do wish the book expanded on the difference between compound interest vs network effects and how birthplace defects create massive inequalities of success between countries/ecosystems - why every country can produce pop stars/athletes but not necessarily a software company the size of Google. 5 stars for: Being clear, consice, data driven, using many real world examples to explain concepts, avoiding flawed "self-helpy" talk that often puts the entire burden of success/failure on the individual instead of on the individual as part of a network.
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Zsolt MIHÁLY
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January 24, 2020
amazing reading
About the author
Albert-László Barabási is the Robert Gray Dodge Professor of Network Science at Northeastern University, where he directs the Center for Complex Network Research. He also holds appointments in the Department of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and the Central European University in Budapest. His work led to the discovery of scale-free networks, and proposed the Barabási–Albert model to explain their widespread emergence in natural, technological and social systems, from the cellular telephone to the WWW or online communities.
Albert-László Barabási is the Robert Gray Dodge Professor of Network Science at Northeastern University, where he directs the Center for Complex Network Research. He also holds appointments in the Department of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and the Central European University in Budapest. Hi...
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