Outliers: The Story Of Success

Success is mostly recognized by the person who succeeds, but most do not realize the factors that upturn someone to great success. A well-presented book of people conquering success is, Outliers: The Story of Success, written by Malcolm Gladwell, lists prime examples of what it takes to be a true Outlier. An Outlier is someone that is above normal and achieves success beyond the regular. Gladwell demonstrates that almost all of society’s success stories are a paradigm: a pattern of fortunate events. Realizing that maybe we should be more aware of the paradigm of success in our world. Our perspective over the years have been that people complete success on their own, however, success has other driven forces. A true outlier does not obtain random
Opportunities and luck tie into some of the greatest success stories. To find a great deal of opportunities where there is none is a true outlier; someone who has enough ambition to proceed in the force of an opportunity. Gladwell uses Bill Gates to demonstrate series of remarkable opportunities. Gates had many opportunities that led him to be one of the most successful people of all time. His first opportunity was he was fortunate to attend Lakeside, a private school, which was the only middle school known with a computer. He experienced programming starting his eighth grade year. He had that opportunity because the mothers formed a computer club, which provided a computer, giving him early access to the flourishing technology era. The computer time was expensive, so the Mother’s club put up Three-thousand dollars to support the fees, which led to another opportunity. When they spent that money, one of the founders of C-cubed, a company that allowed accessing to computers, needed someone to test out the company’s software in trade of free computer time; Gates accepted. Unfortunately C-cubed eventually went bankrupt, but that didn’t set him of the path of his success. Gates fell into the place of ISI (Information Sciences Inc.), which allowed him to work on a piece of software in exchange of free computer time. He estimated twenty or thirty hours of computer time a
For instance, some of the most successful people were born in a few short years of each other. How about the luck that leads to the opportunity. The era people are born in may have a pattern of what they will succeed in. Take a look at Bill Gates, he was born in 1955 an era of computer revolution, which allowed him to conquer his series of events. Gladwell recognized the pattern that people born from 1954 to 1955 had remarkable opportunities that helped them push their way towards success (65). In addition to, birth years, some of the richest people such as: John D. Rockefeller, J.P. Morgan, and Marshall Field, were born a few years from each other. Because they grew up in the years, 1970 to 1989, it was a big advantage. It was the greatest turnaround for the American economy. If someone was born in that time they were likely to get the best opportunities. However, if they were born in 1920’s or 1940’s they were either too old or too young and missed the opportunity to possibly be an outlier (62). The pattern of American success demonstrates that based on how old someone is in a particular era, during an extraordinary revolution, will determine the path of success. Gladwell also demonstrated certain months a Canadian hockey player is born, previously showed, made a huge difference in their outcome of