“…is the strange story of Christopher Langan, a man who despite an IQ of 195 (Einstein's was 150) wound up working on a horse farm in rural Missouri. Why isn't he a nuclear rocket surgeon? Because of the environment he grew up in: there was no one in Langan's life and nothing in his background that could help him capitalize on his exceptional gifts. "He had to make his way alone," Gladwell writes, "and no one--not rock stars, not professional athletes, not software billionaires, and not even geniuses--ever makes it alone."
Conincides with here:
Studies suggest that the key to success in any field has nothing to do with talent. It's simply practice, 10,000 hours of it--20 hours a week for 10 years.
