Outliers

sense of entitlement

Alex is not showing off during his checkup. He is behaving much as he does with his parents—he reasons, negotiates, and jokes with equal ease.

What Wolf began to realize was that the secret of Roseto wasn’t diet or exercise or genes or location. It had to be Roseto itself. As Bruhn and Wolf walked around the town, they figured out why. They looked at how the Rosetans visited one another, stopping to chat in Italian on the street, say, or cooking for one another in their backyards. They le

It’s knowledge that helps you read situations correctly and get what you want.

Instead, what started out as adversity ended up being an opportunity.

“practical intelligence.”

changed and he was ready.

“We have seen,” Terman concluded, with more than a touch of disappointment, “that intellect and achievement are far from perfectly correlated.”

Once someone has reached an IQ of somewhere around 120, having

But high–power distance