In his book Outliers, Malcolm Gladwell takes a closer look at what makes people so successful, and why. In an entertaining and well written way, Outliers explains the relationships between hard work, ambition, passion, and pure luck, using many real-life examples, such as that of Bill Gates. All examples and theories described in the book are the result of extensive research.

We hear stories about self-made millionaire and people who made it from being a cook to owning a private jet. We often tend to treat such people as ‘being lucky’, or we feel the need to state that they probably had the help of a wealthy uncle or family. Seldom, however, we really try to understand what goes on in the mind of someone who truly ‘made it’, and more importantly, trying to learn from it.