Outliers

Bronx. And on the strength of that high school experience, more than 80 percent of KIPP graduates will go on to college, in many cases being the first in their family to do so. How could that be a bad bargain? Everything we have learned in Outliers says that success follows a predictable course. It is not the brightest who succeed. If it were, Chri

Now multiply that sudden flowering of talent by every field and profession. The world could be so much richer than the world we have settled for.

To build a better world we need to replace the patchwork of lucky breaks and arbitrary advantages that today determine success—the

are those who have been given opportunities—and who have had the

strength and presence of mind to seize them.

“No one who can rise before dawn three hundred sixty days a year fails to make his family rich.”

To become a success at what they did, they had to shed some part of their own identity,

Hard work is a prison sentence only if it does not have meaning.

he didn’t assume that legacies are an indelible part of who we are.