Malcom Gladwell's "Outliers" is a text that strives to prove that context counts. Culture matters. Opportunity matters. Arbitrary societal decisions matter. Practice makes perfect. The extraordinary are no more than ordinary people with unusual circumstances. The concepts are simple, and the case studies are shocking. I would put this text on my "list of literature for my children" and hand it to them when they ask me why they are raised the way they are, why some people are more successful than others, why there is or isn't distance between themselves and their social superiors. In fact, it would be a great book for a 9 year old. I wish I'd read this when I was in the 5th grade, before learning some of these lessons the hard way. I recommend Outliers to any age as ultimately motivational company.
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