In the 1860s and 1870s, the American economy went through perhaps the greatest transformation in its history (when rail road built and wall street emerge). <ul><li>If you were born in the late 1840s you missed it. You were too young to take advantage of that moment</li><li>If you were born in the 1820s you were too old: your mind-set was shaped by the pre-Civil War paradigm.</li><li>But there was a particular, narrow nine year window (1830s) that was just perfect for seeing the potential that the future held.</li></ul>

The Year You Are Born In Matter

Below is a list of people who born in the 1950s, the best year to be born as they will be in their 20s when the computer and internet start booming (1970s)

The other interesting thing about that ten thousand 
hours, of course, is that ten thousand hours is an enormous amount of time. It's all but impossible to reach that number all by yourself by the time you're a young adult. You have to have parents who encourage and support you. You can't be poor, because if you have to hold down a part-time job on the side to help make ends meet, there won't be time left in the day to practice enough. In fact, most people can reach that number only if they get into some kind of special program-like a hockey all-star squad.

<ul><li>John D. Rockefeller, 1839</li><li>Andrew Carnegie, 1835</li><li>Frederick Weyerhaeuser, 1834</li><li>Jay Gould, 1836</li><li>Marshall Field, 1834</li><li>George F. Baker, 1840</li><li>Hetty Green, 1834</li><li>James G. Fair, 1831</li><li>Henry H. Rogers, 1840</li><li>J. P . Morgan, 1837</li><li>Oliver H. Payne, 1839</li><li>George Pullman, 1831</li><li>Peter Arrell Brown Widener, 1834</li><li>Philip Danforth Armour, 1832</li></ul>

Successful People Who Born In 1830s

<ul><li class="ql-align-justify">Bill Gates: October 28, 1955</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Paul Allen: January 21, 1953</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Steve Ballmer: March 24, 1956</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Steve Jobs: February 24, 1955</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Eric Schmidt: April 27, 1955</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Bill Joy: November 8, 1954</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Scott McNealy: November 13, 1954</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Vinod Khosla: January 28, 1955</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Andy Bechtolsheim: September 30, 1955</li></ul>

Successful People Who Born In 1950s

<ul><li>This doesn't means that every software tycoon in Silicon Valley was born in 1955, or every business titan in United States was born in mid 1830s</li><li>But there are very clear patterns and what's striking is how little we seem to want to acknowledge them. We pretend that success is exclusively a matter of individual merit.</li><li>They are the people who were given a special opportunity to work really hard and seized it, and who happened to come of age at a time when that extraordinary effort was rewarded by the rest of society</li></ul>

From the bestselling author of Blink and The Tipping Point, Malcolm Gladwell's Outliers: The Story of Success overturns conventional wisdom about genius to show us what makes an ordinary person an extreme overachiever. Why do some people achieve so much more than others? Can they lie so far out of the ordinary? In this provocative and inspiring book, Malcolm Gladwell looks at everyone from rock stars to professional athletes, software billionaires to scientific geniuses, to show that the story of success is far more surprising, and far more fascinating, than we could ever have imagined. He reveals that it's as much about where we're from and what we do, as who we are - and that no one, not even a genius, ever makes it alone. Outliers will change the way you think about your own life story, and about what makes us all unique. 'Gladwell is not only a brilliant storyteller; he can see what those stories tell us, the lessons they contain' Guardian 'Malcolm Gladwell is a global phenomenon ... he has a genius for making everything he writes seem like an impossible adventure' Observer 'He is the best kind of writer - the kind who makes you feel like you're a genius, rather than he's a genius' The Times

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From the bestselling author of Blink and The Tipping Point, Malcolm Gladwell's Outliers: The Story of Success overturns conventional wisdom about genius to show us what makes an ordinary person an extreme overachiever. Why do some people achieve so much more than others? Can they lie so far out of the ordinary? In this provocative and inspiring book, Malcolm Gladwell looks at everyone from rock stars to professional athletes, software billionaires to scientific geniuses, to show that the story of success is far more surprising, and far more fascinating, than we could ever have imagined. He reveals that it's as much about where we're from and what we do, as who we are - and that no one, not even a genius, ever makes it alone. Outliers will change the way you think about your own life story, and about what makes us all unique. 'Gladwell is not only a brilliant storyteller; he can see what those stories tell us, the lessons they contain' Guardian 'Malcolm Gladwell is a global phenomenon ... he has a genius for making everything he writes seem like an impossible adventure' Observer 'He is the best kind of writer - the kind who makes you feel like you're a genius, rather than he's a genius' The Times

Malcolm Gladwell is the author of five New York Times bestsellers—The Tipping Point, Blink, Outliers, What the Dog Saw, and David and Goliath. He is also the co-founder of Pushkin Industries, an audio content company that produces the podcasts Revisionist History, which reconsiders things both overlooked and misunderstood, and Broken Record, where he, Rick Rubin, and Bruce Headlam interview musicians across a wide range of genres. Gladwell has been included in the TIME 100 Most Influential People list and touted as one of Foreign Policy's Top Global Thinkers.

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