Outliers

"I would kick off his reading career with Malcolm Gladwell's "Outliers.""

"my coach gifted it to me the first time I met him, and I replied that I had already read it. From then on, books became a topic of conversation all the time."

"This book is about the principles of timing and repetition—about preparing yourself for luck, really. He talks about a hockey team, and how the players born in January had a year up on the guys born in December. They were fortunate that their birthday was early, but they also practiced—they put the work in. The book resonated with me because I was born at a time when there was an influx of incredible music into the culture, and I was lucky that my mom and pop were huge record collectors. In m..."