Read Outliers, a fine book on economics and management, one of the best-selling and most influential works.
The book offers a new perspective on the origins of success. The outstanding, after all, are not outstanding and each of us can train to be outstanding. This is not meant to normalize, but the outstanding person we understand is outstanding in a simpler sense, so that each person can train to become outstanding.
Read the book to learn the causes of success as well as the secrets to becoming outstanding.