Audible is $14.95/month after 30 days. As a 70-year-old practicing physician with 100-hour work weeks and a 4-year-old daughter, I don’t have much time for non-medical reading. What it does do is to consolidate some interesting research on successful people. I think the book is very good at being very simple and easy to understand. Please try againSorry, we failed to record your vote. But networks matter a lot in fields where there’s no agreed-upon standard of excellence. By completing your purchase, you agree to Audible’s Or did you know, why 20 000 people celebrated the arrival of the ship when Albert Einstein first time visited the USA, pushing Einstein to the front page of New York Times and Washington Post? After viewing product detail pages, look here to find an easy way to navigate back to pages you are interested in.After viewing product detail pages, look here to find an easy way to navigate back to pages you are interested in.

I must read this again, and again. His slicing and dicing of big data to unravel the secrets of success are truly astonishing and groundbreaking.
His work lead to the discovery of scale-free networks in 1999, 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. Sexism enters into the fourth law as well. Please try againSorry, we failed to record your vote. Many have excellent characteristics in addition to drawbacks.A true gem packed with science, that reads like a novel Barabasi has written one of the most insightful and profound books that I have ever read. Performance is bounded, but success is unbounded. Writing in a lively fashion, he illuminates broad principles that explain how people in all fields--from entrepreneurs to scientists to athletes to artists--achieve success. It provides 5 rules/laws to reach success, but unlike other books in the seff-improvement arena, this one is actually a science based summary of findings written in very easy to read way. Learn more about his work. How do we know that? I don't read business books or self-help books at all, but this one really captured my attention and held it. Success is as we all know it to be, raw talent coupled with random luck, hard work, good networking and if you are lucky ... and become successful, that success will breed more success. An essential book on all things success and human achievement. And he is master in the art of writing about the scientific results in a way that it reads like a detective story and is understandable for everybody. To create our lis...It's really interesting to see a theoretical physicist's take on success through the lens of network sciences. Expect some mind-shifting insights about how humans actually reward work or ignore it. Molly Brown is a freelance writer and editor covering tech, … This book is thought provoking. A good read. I'm not totally convinced that his processes can produce such emphatically stated claims. Written like a web of different stories, this book is very hard to put down. Which, of course, is impossible if you’re just starting out. 1 instead of a mere No. A dominant left brain individual would probably find it a fascinating read. Albert László Barabási explains why people succeed or fail. Everything is to the point, and could be interesting to both people studying cultural dynamics, like me, and to those who want to learn some simple principles to succeed in life. The examples presented are incredibly interesting, ranging from so-called wine experts to tennis players to WWI aces and more. Mind bending.

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But your five-year-old measures success by your love. It’s well known that old scientists are less likely to publish breakthrough research than young ones. Please try againSorry, we failed to record your vote. The teachers expected brilliance, so they encouraged it, and the students responded.Barabasi himself exemplifies this law. Best of all, the laws are something that you can actually apply in life, and I bought my 17-year old daughter a copy of the book to hopefully get her off to a good start.Following the five laws doesn't guarantee success but ignoring them usually guarantees failure Ones potential productive capacity, the "Q factor", is invariant up to a person's entire life. Because every team-authored paper to which a woman contributes lowers her chance of getting tenure. Are you a success if you die as a millionaire, alone? The insights are novel and useful, and backed not just by vivid stories, but also by the sorts of detailed and inventive scientific analyses, plainly explained, for which Barabasi is rightly famous. And I'm incredibly impressed at how easily palatable this book is for anyone.