Outliers

I have read all three of Malcolm Gladwell's books: The Tipping Point, Blink and I just finished Outliers. All three I have enjoyed, although I remember with Blink I initially thought I had picked up the large print edition by mistake as it was a bit light on content.

Outliers winds around the theme of success, in Malcolm's anecdotal style. Prodigies, he reasons, are not simply born, but are the product of tremendous effort (clocking up ten thousand hours practising a skill) and the serendipidous opportunities that match their particular circumstances. They are not simply geniuses, but outliers.