Outliers
While we work, we sometimes listen to audiobooks. We got Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell from Audible.com and have been listening to it over the last week.
Outliers. Is. Awesome.
Insightful and entertaining, and at times very touching, Outliers shows that the success of the best and brightest is not due to innate genius or just individual efforts but the product of opportunity, culture, concerted cultivation, and practice fucking practice. My description might seem common sense but the examples (the Beatles, Bill Gates, Canadian hockey players) and their stories are astounding. A lot of people go into a single success.