Ayn Rand's Outliers: The Story Of Success

While I was reading Outliers: the story of success, I was introduced to many new ideas and concepts as well as explained things that I had thought about, but never quite understood why they were the way they are or realized the outcome. The examples that were most personal to me were how the time of year the hockey players were born affected their success and the rice paddies and the three components to satisfying work.

I found autonomy, complexity, and connection between effort and reward being the components of satisfying work relates a lot to my work in 4-H and rifle team. For example, autonomy is the ability to self-govern and be independent, free from external control. Whenever I practiced or studied for poultry shows, I was able to memorize questions and practice with my birds by myself, I knew for myself what I needed to work on and how to do it. The complexity of it was also enjoyable, there being so much to do and remember and the more I do it, the more there is to learn. Everyone judges poultry shows differently, therefore whenever I enter the show ring I never know what’s going to be asked of me, so when preparing, I study all the questions and practice all the commands, which is around 150 questions, as well as body parts of the animal. The connection between effort and reward, however, is the one I found most important.
When I was competing in 4-H livestock showmanship, I noticed the kid who had always won dairy lived on a farm which operated, but didn’t do much. He had the opportunity to spend 3+ hours a day every day working in the barn with his animals. He had his