Outlier

outlier -
1: something that is situated away from or classes differently from a main or related body.
2: a statistical observation that is markedly different in value from others in the sample.

Exert from Chapter 2: The 10,000 Hour Rule

"Do you know what's interesting about this list? Of the 75 names, an astonishing 14 are Americans born withing 9 years of one another in the mid-nineteenth century. Think about that for a moment. Historians start with Cleopatra and the pharohs and comb through every year in human history ever since, looking in every corner of the world for evidence of extraordinary wealth, and almost 20 percent of the names they end up with come from a single generation in a single country."

Outliers is a non-fiction text by Malcolm Gladwell (a.k.a. the GREATEST non-fiction author EVER). I didn't start my evening reading his book, I attempted to read Fast Food Nation and failed miserably. I honestly don't care much for non-fiction at all, but Gladwell hits all the right notes for me. He examines the world from such interesting angles and makes connections between the most unexpected things in life.

:) highly recommend reading something by him in your lifetime.