Outliers

Outliers is a book that tells the history of success of people

The basic concept is that it takes 10k hours of deliberate practice to have great success.

Bill Gates had 10k hours when he started Microsoft, he had access to a computer in their school that he hacked to stay coding many hours.

Math Concept

An outlier can be a dot outside a line/curve

An outlier can be anomaly from the rest of points.

You want to be an outlier

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