Outsider's EDGE

Was reading the outsider's edge today and I find the following are really true:

Billionaires was misfit and outsiders when they grew up. They are different. So extreme are conforming pressures on all children during childhood and aolescene that had they had a choice, they would have chosen to be similar to their peers. They had no choice, they had it forced on them. And difference means creativity.

Being different is not sufficient enough. It is also clear that they have directions and most have their directions set by the time they left school. Maybe it is possible to become extremely rich by jumping from career to career, but these billionaires didn't. Even so, a few moved occupations but they stayed within their occupational theme of trading, selling or creating.

Another key ingredient is drive. Not your average, common or garden variety drive, but over-drive, shading well into compulsion. This is drive well beyond the sort that comes from being enthusiastic about a new idea and seeing it through. It is a hunger that must be fed.

The final element is trading. Excellent in any occupation requires skill and the highest level of skill is only achieved if there is an initil aptitude.