The people who stand before kings may look like they did it all by themselves. We do owe something to parentage and patronage. In Outliers, I want to convince you that these kinds of personal explanations of success don’t work. And in examining the lives of the remarkable among us-the skilled, the talented, and the driven-I will argue that there is something profoundly wrong with the way we make sense of things. We’re going to uncover the secrets of a remarkable lawyer, look at what separates the very best pilots from pilots who have crashed planes, and try to figure out why Asians are so good at math. Over the course of the chapters ahead, I’m going to introduce you to one kind of outlier after another: to geniuses, business tycoons, rock stars, and software programmers. “This is a book about outliers, about men and women who do things that are out of the ordinary.
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