![]() He worked on corporate takeovers at a time when elite law firms thought it beneath them. The public schools in the city were among the best in the nation when he attended them. Flom’s parents weren’t wealthy but made a decent living in the garment industry through timing and luck of geography, Flom would become one of the wealthiest, most successful attorneys in New York City. He contrasts this with the story of a lawyer named Joe Flom in Chapter 5. Langan has held a series of odd jobs and has had only moderate success, which Gladwell largely attributes to his dysfunctional family background. He demonstrates that this is false through the story of Chris Langan, a man with perhaps the highest IQ in the world. ![]() His premise is that if success is purely innate and individual, the higher the IQ someone has, the higher their level of success should be. In the next two chapters, he looks at the idea of genius as measured by IQ tests. ![]()
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