Matt bought me a pretty good book, Outliers. It challenges the accepted explanations for a variety of things--education, plane crashes (just what I needed to read before flying home!), business success (Bill Gates, etc.), and a few others. What characteristics, what reasons, what is behind the success of the successful?
Of course, reading Outliers, it is obvious it would be very difficult to get anyone (or many) to listen to the conclusions here, despite the logic presented.
I think there is room for some disagreement/dispute, esp concerning desired outcomes, but the book is well worth reading...if not only because of the list (in today's dollars) of the 75 wealthiest people in history (J Rockefeller was #1, with H Ford #8--B Gates was 37 or 38 I believe). It included the most recent and even Cleopatra and Crassus (one of the Roman Triumvirate).
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- Ron Marinucci
- I have been married to Karen for 47 of my 73 years. I have two sons, Mike and Matt, both adults (at least in chronological age), and three grandchildren. I am retired, I suppose. I continue to teach college history, part-time; I still enjoy it, although the increasing amount of silly paperwork is grating and will likely be what drives me to fully retire. I have a BA in history from Amherst College and three graduate degrees. I do a little writing, too, some of which actually brings in some money.
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Sound like a good book….maybe you could let your favorite nephew borrow it.
Most certainly.
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