The author has set his definition of “success” so high that he’s guaranteed to fail.

Gladwell tells a good story, and has great skill at writing entire books out of one or two studies that he doesn’t really understand or partially fabricates. His books really are a stunning display of pandering to a desire for easy answers and granting secret knowledge on how thing “really” work.

By the way you parse Wikipedia's definition, evolution, nuclear theory and the theory of gravity could be "religions" as well. From Wikipedia's definition, I would say that atheism is not a religion because there is no organized collection of beliefs, cultural systems or world views; there's no commonality among…