Latest Books by compare and contrast

I read two interesting books over my vacation. I recommend both, but Ender's game firstly if you have limited time.

I only had one interesting thought which comes from how much these books complimented each other.

Outliers is "the story of success" why people are successful, how they got there and why other's didn't. Gladwell comes to the conclusion after a book-long argument that those that made it ought not be so cocky; they have a lot of people to give credit too: their birth date, birth year, their parents, their ethnicity, their culture, their economic status, their nationality, and their legacy. No one is born without these, and based off of your random God-selection of each helps shape how successful you will be. There is no one who can deny their context. People rise to the top because they were aided along the way.

In Ender's Game, the fictional context is created where none of that context matters. He was anticipated as an Outlier. From birth his context was manipulated to polarize him as the Outlier he was. But with that said Ender would not have been the commander that he was without his manipulated context. I wonder what he would have been like with a natural context. Probably always a second (or "Third") under Peter his older and dominating brother.

After reading these two books one after another I am left pondering 3 things: 1 what is my special context, 2 can I manipulate it to be in my favor even more than God has already set in course, and 3 ought I do the second?