Outliers: The Story of Success

by Malcolm Gladwell

there is complexity, autonomy, and a relationship between effort and reward in doing creative work, and that’s worth more to most of us than money.

For its poorest students, America doesn’t have a school problem. It has a summer vacation problem, and that’s the problem the KIPP schools set out to solve.

We are so caught in the myths of the best and the brightest and the self-made that we think outliers spring naturally from the earth.