In the book‚ Outliers‚ Malcom Gladwell expresses situations in different people’s lives through statistics and probability. This book focuses on the “Outliers” of the world‚ these people are the smartest‚ most successful‚ and well achieved human beings. He describes how we pay too much attention to what successful people. We observe minor things like and how they live‚ and not enough attention to their background‚ their culture‚ their family‚ their generation‚ and the way they live‚ and their upbringing
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Let’s get this straight first. I actually applaud Malcolm Gladwell for writing his book Outliers. His theories throughout the book touched ideas that I wouldn’t even begin to think about or question. He gave support for his theories and spent a lot of time describing occurrences that seemed to prove them (as you can guess I’m a bit skeptical about some). I actually enjoyed reading once I got myself to actually focus and read. You see‚ it’s not the type of book that you don’t want to put down;
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While in the article “ The Power of Context” by Malcolm Gladwell‚ the author claims that human behavior is greatly dependent on their surroundings. “Immune to Reality” by Daniel Gilbert and “ The Power of Context” by Malcolm Gladwell allude to the idea that people behave unconsciously; however‚ Gilbert manifests that people make excuses for their behavior in defense to the psychological immune system and Gladwell possess that people’s behavior is manipulated by surrounding
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giants in the 1980s (Locklear‚ 2016). Gladwell tried to make the characters in his book relatable so the reader could use the examples provided in their everyday lives. Gladwell debunks the romantic mystique of self-determinism in part one of his book as well (Locklear‚ 2016). Gladwell believes that it is a myth that people are natural born geniuses. The author believes such geniuses are created by their parents and or society. To prove this theory Gladwell gave the examples of the characters of
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the trouble that lie in the city borders. For the rest of the metropolis‚ the choice is very well pronounced: live with the dirt and grime or try and fight it for the good of the community. In Malcolm Gladwell’s story‚ “The Power of Context: Bernie Goetz and the Rise and Fall of New York City Crime”‚ Gladwell describes that human behavior is deeply affected by our environment. Along the same lines‚ in the short story “The Solitary Stroller and the City”‚ the author Rebecca Solnit delves into her own
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write fiction‚ some write non-fiction. Others like to argue and introduce their theories and ideologies to the world. But all authors have one thing in common: each writer has a main point‚ or main idea‚ to get across the papers and into our heads. Whether it is a short story‚ chapter book‚ article‚ or even a paragraph written down. Every word written onto that piece of paper has a meaning or point. Reading a lot of Malcolm Gladwell’s work‚ I realized that it came down to one simple word that has drove
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Malcolm Gladwell argues that we have to spend 10‚000 hours in order to master a skill. Elon Musk has worked 100 hours a week for more than 15 years which is a total of 76‚000 hours. Perhaps‚ this is one of the reasons why he is one of the biggest outliers. Elon Musk is a 39-year-old engineer and entrepreneur. At 28‚ he co-founded popular e-payment company Paypal. He then went on to start spaceX‚ the first private company to launch a rocket into space‚ and Tesla motors‚ which builds electric cars
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majority of society‚ this is the case. I correlate this to having abundance or too much in one area as opposed to moderation or equality in any regard will result in a lack of interest or no appreciation for the subject‚ item‚ or thing. Second‚ Gladwells theory in David and Goliath‚ chapter 2‚ of how the inverted u curve applies to life was illustrated well when he explains the effects that the man from Hollywood experienced when he realized he was on the extreme right of the curve earning too much
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Malcolm´s stance on violence would be considered relative to the Black Panthers. On page 7 it states‚ ¨I dont favor violence‚ if we could bring about recognition and respect of our people by peaceful means‚ well and good. Everybody would like to reach this objectives¨ because he did not condone violence‚ but self defense‚ which you do upon what others do to you. He was open minded to peace‚ but‚ from the looks of it‚ peace was not going to solve this refusal for African Americans rights. This type
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crime. In other words‚ how do “broken windows” lead to serious crime? Broken windows leads to serious crime because broken windows‚ or similar things‚ signify that no one cares in the community. If people did care that window would have been fixed‚ but when one window is broken is creates a slippery slope for serious crime to occur. When things like broken windows are present criminals unconsciously see it as appropriate to commit crimes. Little things like broken windows show a breakdown in communal
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