Secondly, that talent is largely a matter of having opportunities to practice (see #1). First, that success is more a matter of opportunity than talent, and opportunities are structured by social forces that are often hidden or obtuse in ways that are unintuitive or coincidental.Gladwell sets out to establish three core premises through which he wants to re-write the classical liberal narrative of success as the result of individual genius or talent: "Outliers" is extraordinarily well written, compulsive to read, and crafts compelling anecdotes about the true nature of success. It challenges deeply help myths about the supposed genius of our culture's sporting, legal, and entrepreneurial heroes. It is thus with some chagrin to report that I have only belatedly read Malcolm Gladwell's 2008 "Outliers: The Story of Success". That myth is largely how our current Western social institutions legitimise the inequality they produce, and is deployed in even fiercer forms to resist social policies to eliminate poverty. I am generally sceptical of the myth of meritocracy.
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