the trouble with genius(outliers)monday march 28th

In Malcolm Gladwell's book Outliers he brings up many interesting questions that we usually would not think of. For example-genius's. Most of us aren't genius's, and would do anything to become one, but he views them negatively for the most part. In this chapter he tries to explain why extraordinarily intellectual people are for some reason unsuccessful due to many conditions. He says it's not so much about raw talent, but about opportunity, and what you do with this talent. He explains the bell curve and how most people would fall into the middle, and the ones that don't are genius's or "OUTLIERS." Since they're outliers they feel out of place, and not normal, and therefore don't do as well. Usually the normal people are more successful then the outliers even though the outliers are more intellectual. He talks about one man in particular and that was Chris Langdon. He had the highest IQ of our time at 195, but was never successful because he had no one to help him out.