After pages and pages of arguing that success is solely influenced by opportunity and legacy, Gladwell turn to title his book: Outliers. Gladwell identifies outliers as the groups/people that break the norms of typical and expected success. It seems counter-intuitive to name the book after something that he ever so strongly argued against. The entirety of the novel and kind of the theme is that not everything can always be predicted and have a set pattern to explain the way things work.
Outliers are rare, they're not always seen on a daily basis, but when they are they leave a huge impact. Outliers tend to even overshadow those that may have put in Ten Thousand hours of work, and such significance is great enough. The sheer greatness of being able to produce something that one has not given any effort into is truly amazing. I believe to provide Gladwell himself with some literal relief he titled the book as he did, to implode such thematic significance.
Outliers are rare, they're not always seen on a daily basis, but when they are they leave a huge impact. Outliers tend to even overshadow those that may have put in Ten Thousand hours of work, and such significance is great enough. The sheer greatness of being able to produce something that one has not given any effort into is truly amazing. I believe to provide Gladwell himself with some literal relief he titled the book as he did, to implode such thematic significance.