¨Outliers in a particular field reached their lofty status through a combination of ability, opportunity, and utterly arbitrary advantage”Gladwell writes. In this quote he explains how people cannot reach success through simple intelligence. In the course of two chapters he gives us a variety of examples to better help us understand the threshold that IQ and success has. The two main examples he uses include analyzing Lewis Terman's ¨ Genetic Studies for Geniuses¨, and comparing the life of two geniuses (one successful and the other not). Terman was deluded with the results of his research since they concluded the fact that intellect and achievement are far from perfectly correlated¨ as he said. He began by shadowing and recording a group of