Outliers Summer Reading Assignment Introduction: The beginning of the book, Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell, starts off with the story of the Roseto Mystery. This is referencing from a true story taken place in a small town named Roseto in Pennsylvania. The name Roseto originated from Italy, this is named so because the people who make up Roseto, Pennsylvania are immigrants from Italy. People from this small, self-sufficient town amazed many doctors such as Stewart Wolf; the fact that heart disease is less common for men under the age of sixty-five.…
In Outlier, Malcolm Gladwell argues an “opportunity” is the important key which lead people from one success to another success (5). He proves his point to the readers by an example that seems normal to a strong evidence about the “physical maturity” in which affect by the birth month gap (24). I agree with him about the meaning of an outlier who must “do things that are out of the ordinary” (17) and those “genuine outlier” hockey players “didn’t start out an outlier”, yet “he started out just a little bit better” (31). His viewpoint about those sport games not only precisely substantiate, but it also exactly justify the impact of family background that certainly affect individuals’ success. Gladwell makes me to realize that real life success…
Malcolm Gladwell's Outliers focuses on the concept of success. Through various case studies and examples he challenges the notion that an individual's Intelligence Quotient (IQ) is a direct predictor of an individual's success. Gladwell's carefully chosen case studies and the manner in which he presents them is how he is able to connect to his audience. In the span of these two chapter the author references several areas of popular culture, sprinkles in statics and historical tidbits, all the while emphasizing his stance that "success" is independent of…
Outliers, is a book by Malcolm Gladwell, which is known as the book of success. This book explains why some people succeed more than others and it even suggest that birth dates are a factor of success giving an example of Bill Gates and his success in Microsoft. If your are interested in why Asians are superior in math, or why the worlds smartest man has accomplished the least, this book has all the answers. The title says it all outliers means those persons of exceptional accomplishments.…
Gladwell, M (2008). Outliers: The Story of Success. New York, New York: Little, Brown, & Gladwell…
Most people today think that people are born to be successful. In Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell, he proves there are numerous factors that will help to succeed. To support his idea, he uses examples such as, cut-off date of the Canadian Hockey League, how Bill Gates and the Beatles spent at least 10,000 hours. In addition, he uses stories of Chris Langan, and Robert Oppenheimer to compare how one can succeed and can fail with extremely high IQs. Furthermore, Gladwell utilizes story Joseph Flom to show how he was able to build successful law firms with different cultural background. At last, he describes how cultural difference play a large role in looking into intelligence and decision…
While going through the PBS website called Power of Illusion, we found many things that were new to us and that surprised us. The things that were new to us was the idea of race is actually a modern idea. Ancient societies did not divide people according to physical differences. Another idea that was new to us, was the adding of race to our census was not added until 1790, additionally the race of “Mexican” was not added until 1930. What surprised us the most was that us as humans actually have not been around long enough to put ourselves in subcategories based on our race or ethnicity.…
He says CQ + PQ > IQ, by which he means that the Curiosity Quotient plus the Passion Quotient is greater than the Intelligence Quotient. Which is to say, you don’t have to be the smartest person around, if you have curiosity and passion. If you’re trying to compete by being the smartest person around, remember that in China, for example, if you’re one in a million, there are about 1,300 of you! Because that’s the size of China.…
In the First Chapter of the book “the outliers”, Gladwell gives the reader a overall view of what his big message is in the book. What he is trying to inform the reader.…
The book Outliers written by Maclolm Gladwell is a book about success. Throughout the book he gives numerous examples of how people have achieved and in some instances, not achieved success. Popular belief would suggest that people who are considered outliers have gotten there through hard work and innate talent. Gladwell however, suggest that something is contributing to people being able to seek the levels of success that would make them an outlier. Gladwell believes that hidden advantages, extraordinary opportunities and cultural legacies are the main factors of predicting success. Gladwell makes strong arguments to back up his claims chapter after chapter in the book. While I was reading Outliers one…
In Outliers: The Story of Success Chapter 3 and 4 “The Trouble with Geniuses 1 and 2 ” by Gladwell shows that two phenomenal genius person, but both are not the same.…
Outlier is about how super-achievers like, for instance Malcolm Gladwell get where they are today. In Outliers, he inspects the wonder of high accomplishment, fantastic stories of triumph regularly ascribed to the steadiness, diligent work, and inalienable individual ability. Gladwell doesn't disown the need of inborn capacity, and he indicates diligent act as a significant element for triumph in any attempt. In any case he finds in these examples of overcoming adversity that components, for example timing, condition, and social legacy play an oft-disregarded yet basic part. Outlier is Malcolm Gladwell's tribute to these unsung models.…
Society fails to include the extremities of life and its circumstances when considering a person’s value. Not having the opportunity to continue school is very common. One example is Rose’s mother who had to “quit school in the seventh grade to help raise her brothers and sisters” (98). Another example is of my parents who were born in another country and who did not have the level of formal education past high school. This made it very challenging for my parents to go to school because they had many varied responsibilities, including going to work to the family. Another example is my friend Catherine who gave birth to her first newborn, who also watched her father pass away two months before her son’s birthdate. These life-changing events influenced her inability to afford time and money for college. All these people are deemed less intelligent because they do not fit the given model for society to judge them…
Dr. Carol Dweck researches environmental factors and how we view our intelligence. Her theory proposes we take either an entity view or an incremental view of ourselves (Niehart, Reis, Robinson & Moon, 2002). People with an entity view see their intelligence as fixed. Intelligence does not change. Entity view individuals want to appear smart and want learning to seem effortless. When working in a classroom, these students will not take risks unless they are sure the end will result in success. These students will become upset when given challenges, take a stance of helplessness, and not attempt the work (Niehart, Reis, Robinson & Moon, 2002). Students with and entity view expect praise for work, not for effort. Dr. Dweck believes that this view is cultivated in the early days at school and at homes. These gifted children often sit unchallenged, spend time working only on self-select work where success is assured, or through adults who praise the child’s success not the process (Fenstermaker, 2014). Conversely to the entity view is the incremental view. These people believe that intelligence continues to grow (Niehart, Reis, Robinson & Moon, 2002). As students, these people are willing to take learning risk and do not care if others perceive them as smart. They will set…
Imagine a world where not a single soul is limited by their mental capacity, and everyone has an equal chance to achieve brilliance. The short story, “Flowers for Algernon” by Daniel Keyes, is a tale about a learning delayed adult named Charlie Gordon who is given the opportunity to increase his intelligence through a science fictional medical procedure. It is through this character’s journey of intellectual development that one is able to see the awe-inspiring bestowment it is to be given a second chance to change oneself. Because of the numerous positive outcomes associated with his surgery, Charlie is better off in life subsequent to the operation with his enhanced IQ of 204. Charlie’s heightened intelligence opens the gateway for him to feel other emotions than just vacuous happiness. Likewise, Charlie’s procedure lets him recognize the rude and abusive behavior of his inconsiderate co-workers, and is he then able to make better decisions for himself. Similarly, Charlie’s amplified IQ makes his goal of communicating well like other people a very feasible reality. All in all, Charlie would be more successful, and therefore have a better life, if his IQ was increased to 204.…