I thought Outliers by MG was a GREAT book until someone told me the author cherry picked his examples and that the author failed to explain thoroughly how other success stories are won. Take for example, those who have wealth and/or power of influence or those who win by chance meetings or situational events. For example, Macy Gray won her fame because of the failure of another artist to appear for a musical taping. Her voice, although okay and acceptable, never held the power of the artist who failed to show up. Still studio time is money and luck prevailed as an ingredient to Gray's success as it does in many other cases.