For the richest men in human history, why there is a bunch from a single generation in a single country, born in 1830's in USA. What are Bill Gates, Paul Allen, Steve Ballmer , Steve Jobs, Eric Schmidt, and Bill Joy in common? Why Chris Langan , with a perfect 200 IQ score, ends up as a bouncer? Oppenheimer, a genius who was once in depression, and tried to murder his tutor , was assigned as head of Manhattan Project? Why Jewish lawyers succeed in New York? Why Korean Airline sucked big time before? Why Chinese is good at Maths? Malcolm Gladwell , the author of Outlier, looks behind the spectacular results, reads between the lines, and explains from a freshening perspective.