Gladwell tells a story of a genius named chris langan why did Chris not make a long contribution to mankind

Langan was counter-cultural in a sense. The conformity of society and academia were hard on him. Langan spent his adulthood working odd manual jobs and was primarily employed as a bouncer. All the while, he worked on a project called the "Cognitive Theoretical Model of the Universe," but abandoned any ambitions to become a formally recognized scholar. When Gladwell interviewed Langan, Langan expressed great ambivalence about academic institutions such as Harvard, which were both nurturing and materialistic in Langan's mind.