When were you born? Where were you born? Where are you living now? Are you a baby boomer (this means you've had to compete quite a bit for resources) or born in a trough year?
These sound like empty questions, but actually they're not. After reading Outliers, I'm quite inspired to further define the situation in which I live in order to better define what opportunities there are to be taken advantage of.
Gladwell shows that sometimes there is even only a SMALL WINDOW within which an opportunity can be taken advantage of. When the personal computer revolution started in 1975, for example, you would want to have been about 20, 21 or 22 or 23 to really be able to take advantage of it. Older than that and you might already be sucked into a "career" and a family. Younger than that and you probably couldn't cash in. But if you were born in 1953-1955, you might just have become Bill Gates.
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Based upon and inspired by Malcolm Gladwell's recent book, _Outliers: The Story of Success_ (2008). Outliers is a term for people, events and phenomena that fall outside the realm of the everyday: extraordinary people and their achievements. We would all like to be exceptional at something. The good news is that it isn't intelligence that causes true success, but a lot of practice and taking advantages of the opportunities we are given.
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