"Superstar lawyers and math whizzes and software entrepreneurs appear at first blush to lie outside ordinary experience. But they don't. They are products of history and community, of opportunity and legacy. Their success is not exceptional or mysterious. It is grounded in a web of advantages and inheritances, some deserved, some not, some earned, some just plain lucky - but all critical to making them who they are. The outlier, in the end, is not an outlier at all."
"To build a better world we need to replace the patchwork of lucky breaks
and arbitrary advantages today that determine success--the fortunate
birth dates and the happy accidents of history--with a society that
provides opportunities for all."
"Those three things - autonomy, complexity and a connection between
effort and reward - are, most people agree, the three qualities that
work has to have if it is to be satisfying. It is not how much money we
make that ultimately makes us happy between nine and five. It's whether
our work fulfills us."
-- Malcolm Gladwell, Outliers: The Story of Success
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