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Outliers Review – Summary & Analysis – Opportunity, Part 1/4

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January 16, 2016 by ES Ivy

Outliers Review - how opportunity relates to successMy dissatisfaction with the current overbearing schedule for students in high school has led me to do quite a bit of reading.  (To see my reading list about success and education, click here.) One of the first books I read was  Outliers: The Story of Success, by Malcom Gladwell. It had been on my reading list for awhile for completely unrelated reasons, so when it was recommended to me as a follow up to World Class Learners: Educating Creative and Entrepreneurial Students by Yong Zhao, I moved it to the top. Among other things, World Class Learners used Steve Jobs, an Outlier, as an example of a successful entrepreneur so much that I was curious to see an analysis of his success….

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