The "outliers" in the book refer to the leaders in various industries. The public generally believes that "genius" is the result of innate qualifications + acquired efforts, but the author of this book gives a different answer.
The authors argue that success depends on the continuous accumulation of strengths. Among them, "advantages" cover all aspects, including family background, regional culture, and opportunities of the times to a large extent, and age, date of birth, selection mechanism, social skills and even native languages to a small extent.
The uncontrollable factors of success are much higher than the controllable factors. Even if an individual struggles hard, it is difficult to succeed if he is not born at the right time. The author does not deny the role of acquired effort, but if you spend most of your life in subsistence and subsistence, it is difficult to achieve excellence in a particular professional field.
This book should not be classified as a "success study" work, it does not give you specific ways to succeed, but it does seriously and carefully analyze the reasons for success, opening up a new perspective for the reader to observe "success", which is really a good work!
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