"Success is not a random act. It arises out of a predictable and powerful set of circumstances and opportunities." —Malcolm Gladwell, OutliersThe first new automobile Steve Smith ever purchased, a stripped-down, bronze-gold Mazda 626, was barreling through some blistering heat in the Appalachian Mountains with the windows down on the last Sunday of August 1983. He was zooming out of Kentucky with a heavy foot on the gas pedal, pushing through southern Virginia, not too far from the North Carolina border...