Outliers

Earlier this spring, I read The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell.  It was a very good book that helps to understand how epidemics/fashions/ trends/ popular new products start, spread, and grow exponentially.  He explains and gives examples of how little things can make big differences.

I recently finished another of his books, Outliers (The Story of Success).  He explores why highly successful people got that way.  Yes, they need intelligence and ambition.  The right family and cultural background is important.  The opportunity for lots of practice is important.  But summing up the most important reasons that highly successful people are successful is being in the right place at the right time!
But we should have known, Solomon told us that thousands of years ago.

I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all.
Ecclesiastes 9:11