Outlier里讲美国IQ最高的那孩子，家境贫寒，父母没能力教他如何待人处事，结果两次上大学都因为小事没处理好而被勒令退学。对比富裕家庭出身的Oppenheimber，在剑桥给老师下毒，竟能留校继续读书。
写到这里，想起一个反例，胡雪岩，一个小放牛娃，家境贫寒，没读过书，长大过程中能不断地给自己创造出一个又一个机会，待人处事周到，对事情发展能做出准确的判断，真想不出他这些出色的能力是哪里来的。只能理解为天才了。天才是不需要后天教育和环境影响的。
下面是一个Oppenheimer下毒的八卦，他下毒的老师后来拿了诺贝尔。以前看过另一个说法，是他自己为自己辩解说服了校方而得到了留校读书的机会。
He did it because of his jealousy of his tutor Patrick Blackett an experimental physicist popular for formulating his work on cosmic rays. This later fueled by the fact he couldn’t study experimental physics due to his clumsiness in the lab. In a fit of sheer envy and hatred he had coated an apple in harmful chemical substances and placed it on his tutor’s desk. During a trip to Corsica he guilty confessed of his wrong doings to his colleagues and wanted to return immediately to the university. Fortunately the tutor was unharmed, but the university had already been informed about the attempt and were seeking to press charges. Only the intervention of his parents stopped this and he was in academic probation and undergo psychiatric evaluations. He and his tutor did repair their relationship and this story became a dark episode in Oppenheimer’s career
