Outliers will challenge the world view of anyone who comes down hard on the Nature side of the Nature Nurture debate and should even force willpower preachers to re-examine their view that success comes down to individuals. Throughout the book the role of the environment is thrust forward and championed in areas ranging from professional baseball to rice paddy farmers. Even Bill Gates and Steve Jobs fail to emerge unscathed. In all cases it is suggested that, while the individual's interests, preferences, and tendencies helped them to succeed, the environment provided the necessary soil for the flowers of their talent to truly blossom. Interestingly in many cases Gladwell seems to suggest that the emergence of talent is a necessary consequence of the environment working on the individual rather than the other way around.
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