“Knowledge of a boy’s IQ is of little help if you are faced with a formful of clever boys.” - Louis Terman, by way of Malcolm Gladwell in Outliers In his book, Outliers , Malcolm Gladwell attempts to define what contributes to making a person uber-successful. Chance has a lot to do with it; for example if your birthday is right after the cut-off date for sports or school, and you are the oldest on your team or in your grade, you have a better chance of being labeled as talented, and therefore will be groomed as talented and therefore will be more successful. Another is practice. Any person who is considered an expert in their field generally has put at least 10,000 hard hours into whatever it is they do. People who have the opportunity and inclination to put in the hours are more successful. Another is divergent thinking. Gladwell asserts that once a person gets to an IQ of about 120, additional IQ points do not help that person nearly as much as other factors, such as d...