Lately my friends and I have been talk­ing about how peo­ple suc­ceed, won­der­ing why some are more suc­cess­ful than oth­ers despite com­pa­ra­ble intel­lec­tual advan­tages or innate tal­ents. Most of us have read Mal­colm Gladwell’s Out­liers, and we’ve been com­par­ing his case stud­ies to our per­sonal expe­ri­ence and pon­der­ing the impli­ca­tions.

Our Own Stories, And Belated Thanks

We’re been telling sto­ries about how and when we got our lucky break, describ­ing the peo­ple or events that were trans­for­ma­tive in our lives. [Read more…]