found out that success comes when we meet 10'000 hours of hard work in addition to talent, IQ and the right set of circumstances. The Beatles had to perform 8 hours at a stretch at Hamburg before they met with success. Bill Gates had to work from 2-6am before he got his breakthrough. And many others.....
What i suspected all along!


"Why did you write Outliers?

I write books when I find myself returning again and again, in my mind, to the same themes. I wrote Tipping Point because I was fascinated by the sudden drop in crime in New York City—and that fascination grew to an interest in the whole idea of epidemics and epidemic processes. I wrote Blink because I began to get obsessed, in the same way, with the way that all of us seem to make up our minds about other people in an instant—without really doing any real thinking. In the case of Outliers, the book grew out a frustration I found myself having with the way we explain the careers of really successful people. You know how you hear someone say of Bill Gates or some rock star or some other outlier—"they're really smart," or "they're really ambitious?' Well, I know lots of people who are really smart and really ambitious, and they aren't worth 60 billion dollars. It struck me that our understanding of success was really crude—and there was an opportunity to dig down and come up with a better set of explanations."

- From https://www.gladwell.com/outliers/index.html

The book's premise sounds interesting and makes total sense.