 Book of the day thought of the day outliers by Malcolm Gladwell amazing book and My favorite by Malcolm Gladwell still here in Norway Oslo my vacation home. How pretty it is out there. I was thinking a Wondering why I like this book so much and I think it's because It reinforces a thought whenever you have a thought on your own and then you read it somewhere I think you you'd like the book more and that is why do we as a society study average so much So every scientific report you'll see will be like the average person sleeps eight hours a day the average person You know who has a high-paying job went to college this many years, but Forget average what you want to do is study the outliers. That's why the books called outliers What do exceptional people do differently you study average you end up with average So in the book he studies, you know top rags to riches stories Lawyers he studies a guy who has the highest IQ in the world, but didn't get far Or probably as far as he should have didn't reach his potential and he uncovers all kinds of amazing I don't know if it's pure science the book some of it's obviously anecdotal, but for example Luck plays a big role, but not look like you think luck about things like being born to a wealthier family Does help, but there's other factors that can mitigate against being born Let's say you were born in poverty. I was born a single mom and So the odds is somewhat are against you and he examines the fine line between What we call luck like being born into a rich family Bill Gates kids or something and then having Opportunistic luck. That's what I call it. So For example, if you're born healthy That's lucky But if you don't take advantage of the opportunity, it's all for nothing. I think some people think it's great It's black and white like you're born unlucky So you have no chance or you're born lucky and therefore things will automatically come to you It's not really that way on a Schwarzenegger's body, you know, it became the most legendary bodybuilder of all time He had the physique for it But he had to grab the opportunity Had he never worked out he would have just been probably a kind of stocky dude Albert Einstein had he not put in the work. He had a math Physics mentor growing up Bill Gates spent 10 20,000 hours as a teenager programming. Sure. He had a school that was wealthy enough and A family was wealthy enough to give him that opportunity to have a computer back in the 60s and 70s when most didn't But a lot of kids had that and he took that opportunistic luck and ran with it and sat down and literally programmed for Sometimes 20 hours a weekend. He said he would do So when there's a lot more to this book, I'm not gonna Give a full summary just because it's a good book. You should read on your own but The takeaway for me is No matter who you are, there's some luck to your life and you got to grab that opportunity It might be You know, you're lucky to be born in a country that's Free or you might be born in a horrible place where the odds are all against you But there might be one thing maybe you're good at soccer. Maybe you're good at writing. Maybe you're good at math Maybe you're good socially with people and the good news about life You only got to grab one opportunity and magnify it and Get it large enough that it will make up for all those shortcomings. So for me like I said You look at my life Statistically the average I haven't gone to college. So the average person who hasn't gone to college makes less than the average person I mean the average person who has gone to college makes more than the person like me that dropped out But I didn't care about average. I found outliers Bill Gates Einstein dropped out of high school for a little while Richard Branson all these You know, there's a long line of people that have done the same thing Paul Allen and I said, let me magnify Something I'm lucky in and I'm fairly social person So most of my businesses have always been social in nature and I just magnified that one area forgot about the rest That I didn't have quite as much luck in and we live in a time where that's all you need one big break. So Read the book outliers. It's really a good book. It's one of the shorter Malcolm Gladwell ones and You'll find some other points in there, but we have a comment. What's your opportunistic? luck lucky event in your life or area in your life that you can Focus on even though I'm sure you got some things that are you know Some knocks against you leave that as a comment and I'll talk to you