Outliers are just ordinary people who grasped extra ordinary opportunties and used them to work very very hard. Basically, all success stories have a story of extraordinary opportunities behind them like Bill Gates, whose school had a main frame when most universities across the US didn’t, like the fact that Jobs, Gates, Khosla and numerous other IT dons were born in the same year and hence were at the right age, like sports men who generally fall into date of births from 2-3 months in a year depending on when the yearly selections take place(this is interesting.. will elucidate some other time)
So, in a way, what I got is that we could work as hard as possible and may never be as successful as the above and that’s still ok, as long as we aim to become an expert in what we do and make sure we put in our 10,000 hour shift somewhere…
A Learning a Day 