Outliers: The Story of Success By Malcolm Gladwell Outliers: The Story of Success is a book that examines the qualities and experiences of successful people in order to provide a blueprint for nurturing the human potential. According to the author‚ Malcolm Gladwell‚ human potential is not something one is born with but something that has to be shaped throughout one’s life course. Contrary to popular belief‚ having a high IQ or a lucky break are good opportunities to have‚ however‚ they do not
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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
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the world we live in today‚ there are many different views towards an individual subject matter. While we may think control our lives‚ the world around us shares our perspective. Authors David Epstein: “The Sports Gene” and Malcolm Gladwell: “The Outliers” have subjective reasoning as to what an individual must do to reach the highest standards. Epstein has a more reasonable and evidential take on the pathway of an individual; he acknowledges different views while maintaining the concept of innate
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Malcolm Gladwell is a well-known journalist and non-fiction writer. In our assigned reading material “Outliers‚” Gladwell explores different social and psychological phenomena and their implications for both businesses and individuals. Gladwell proclaims that success is shaped by external entities. The author argues that certain individuals are granted precise opportunities and advantages that not everybody is given by fate. However‚ even though Gladwell’s theory of attaining success holds some
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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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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
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feel like work. It gives you just as much pleasure as it does to be home. If you are motivated you get things done quicker and better. Even the smallest accomplishments feel huge because having a job you love gives you extra motivation. In the book Outliers By Malcolm Gladwell he talks about something called the ten thousand hour rule. Gladwell says it takes around ten thousand hours to achieve true mastery in any field of work. “What’s ten years? Roughly how long it takes to put in ten thousand hours
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through the ages. What fuels the force behind some of the most famous figures in history? And most of all; how? Malcolm Gladwell’s “The Outliers: The Story of Success”‚ suggests many theories and explanations on how one can become an “outlier” of society by analyzing the triumphs and failures of the people and events that we know very best. Gladwell goes about this book by bringing success down to something that is most relatable in every human. Life. Not just escaping death‚ but living a full and healthy
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Something that is always brought up is‚¨do we control our destiny or does your destiny choose you?¨ Well folks the answer is very simple. I am going to summarize two stories that talk about how much we control our destiny. People have also been talking about this concept for many centuries too. The first story I am going to talk about is the Sport Gene. The story begins with a college student named Thomas who is bet that he cant jump six foot six. Thomas successfully completes the bet and actually
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In Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell‚ this is described as a “generational advantage” (Gladwell 67). A generational advantage is when the year one was born contributes in a big way to one’s success. Mia Hamm was born on March 17‚ 1972. Title 9‚ a law that states
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