My 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 for books about success and education, click here.) One of the first books I read was Outliers: The Story of Success, by Malcom Gladwell.
In the first half, Gladwell showed how the success of Outliers can be tied to luck, to timing, to “Opportunity.”
In the second half, Gladwell showed how the success of Outliers is also affected by where you come from and your culture, “Legacy.”
There’s nothing like taking the evidence presented to you and thinking that you can come up with a better explanation, even though you’re getting all the information from a secondary source. 🙂 (In other words, I didn’t get to see all the evidence Galdwell collected, just what he presented to me in this book.) But I think all the information can point to a different, more hopeful, and more active interpretation.
What you need for success – my take on Outliers, by Gladwell
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On this website, I explore the question of whether or not the current education system, high school through college, is teaching what’s really needed for our kids to be successful. Or at the very worst, is actually hampering the best students. Do you know how much sleep your teen is getting? Does your child have lots of 
