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So you think you’re a self-made person?

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Last year the same question was mostly answered by a book received at Christmas from my daughter. My comments then from my nearly daily Ramblings:

July 19, 2009–house sitting a War Horse Farm near Sarasota, Florida

Not many months ago I read a book that described quite well the circumstances that move a person along their pathways to become what they become,  Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell. There is the easily made comment that a person is self-made but Malcolm has shown that many others relative to any self-made person have been the real stepping stones for without them, that person would not, through their own efforts, have become the end product at any particular time.

What or why do events or actions or things, call these what you will, happen to people? For example, there have been many times which I have recognized and some written about that occur in my life, those not-on-purpose happenings that come together at a near single time. Here’s the most recent one. (more…)