Outliers (Not by Malcolm Gladwell)

It usually takes an outlier, something out of the ordinary, to make someone change anything meaningful in their life. It could be something good, like meeting the girl of your dreams or having a baby, or something bad, like the death of someone close to you or experiencing a near death experience personally. I know flipping and rolling my car several years ago really made me stop and think about everything in my life. I think these outliers lead to moments of clarity, moments in which something important to you is so directly in your sights that you can’t see any of the nonsense that normally catches your eye.