Outliers
The Story of Success
Chapter One
Outlier, noun.
out-li-er
\-,li(-#)r\
1 : something that is situated away from or classed differently from a main or
related body
2 : a statistical observation that is markedly different in value from the
others of the sample
1.
Roseto Valfortore lies one hundred miles southeast of Rome, in the Apennine
foothills of the Italian province of Foggia. In the style of medieval villages,
the town is organized around a large central square. Facing the square is the
Palazzo Marchesale, the palace of the Saggese family, once the great landowner
of those parts. An archway to one side leads to a church, the Madonna del
Carmine-Our Lady of Mount Carmine. Narrow stone steps run up the hillside,
flanked by closely-clustered two-story stone houses with red tile roofs.
For centuries, the paesani of Roseto worked in the marble quarries in the
surrounding hills, or cultivated the fields in the terraced valley below,
walking four and five miles down the mountain in the morning and then making ... read full excerpt from: Outliers ebook
