Essay On Outliers By Malcolm Gladwell

Over my four-month summer break my goal was to get my hands on as many books as possible. One of the books that I came across was called “Outliers” by Malcolm Gladwell. After reading this book on my flight to Asia I fell in love with the book and admired the author. His writing was organized in a way where it was easy to comprehend and he was able to support his evidence with research and statistics. Although there are a lot of scholarly terms that is used to support his study, he uses a more simplified language to make these terms more understandable and later backs up his simple language with intellectual evidence. Moreover, his books are structured in a way where each scientific study is systematized in a specific order so that he can use the aforementioned example to
Not only does Gladwell explain statistical evidence with words, but he presents visual diagrams such as charts and diagrams in the book, so that the reader can better understand the logic. Gladwell also chose examples that would interest the readers, so that they would be able to recognize or relate to the people or idea that are mentioned in the book. Furthermore, in “Outliers” Gladwell expresses his narrative influence of the hidden logic with examples of successful people like Bill Gates and the Beatles. For example, he depicts Bill Gates as a success in computer programming because he had 10,000 hours of practice in middle and high school and was given all these fortunate opportunities before college. Gladwell use of precise numbers allow people to get a mental picture in their mind so that they can better understand how people became