The story Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell is described to be a “story of success”; in fact those are the exact words on the cover of the book. I would consider this book more of a story that is not only describing success‚ but how people that became successful were able to do it in the first place. Overall‚ this book gives extraordinary background stories on how people that many of us look up today‚ started out as just regular human beings like you and me. This book is a magnificent source of motivation
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popularized by Malcolm Gladwell‚ is considered a key to success. Though hard work is necessary for mastering something‚ do we really need to spend 10‚000 hours or is there more to this than Gladwell presented in his book Outliers? With further research it was found that 10‚000 hours is not the end all be all for mastery. In fact‚ Gladwell was wrong because he oversimplified what is necessary for mastery and the amount of work people need to put in by a long shot. In chapter two of Malcolm Gladwell’s
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Reading Journal #4 In chapters 3-5 in Outliers‚ Malcolm makes a very great point. People in this world tend to think that those with IQ’s higher than 140 are the ones that are going to have great futures with jobs that will make them great income. Now anyone in this world would agree that those with high IQ’s are intelligent‚ but just because they may be smarter than most people‚ does not necussarily mean that they are going to succeed in life. Having a high IQ does not define who you are‚ the
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1. The large difference between how I have thought and understood success compared to the way Malcolm Gladwell argues is the circumstances and families that create success. Previous to reading this book‚ I strongly believed that the way to become successful was to put in hard work. For example‚ my theory to success was similar along the lines to what Malcolm Gladwell discusses earlier in the book. He says‚ “Practice isn’t the thing you do once you’re good. It’s the thing you do that makes you good”(Gladwell
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slowly walks down a royal red carpet‚ he is wearing a black satin suit and has a handsome look on his pale face‚ but who is it‚ it’s Bill Gates. How did he become successful enough to walk this carpet? The truth is that he earned his way on the walkway for celebrities because he made a prominent identity for himself. Furthermore‚ Bill Gates rise to success is explained in Malcolm Gladwell’s Outliers. It is also explained that a person’s identity is developed due to the key opportunities and talents
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What Outliers Show us about Success Many people believe that success has a direct correlation to one’s intelligence‚ ambition‚ and personality traits‚ but in fact‚ those are not what someone successful. As described by Malcolm Gladwell in the book Outliers‚ the successful become that way as a result of many factors that come their way. Gladwell shows that surrounds the successful are their culture‚ their family‚ their generation‚ and the idiosyncratic experience of their upbringing. Malcolm Gladwell’s
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An outlier is a person or thing situated away or detached from the main body or system. In other words‚ an outlier is a person who goes out of their way and does something no one thought was possible for them to do. Many people in the book Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell did things that people thought weren’t possible. People like Bill joy‚ Martin Luther king Jr. are all outliers because this individuals all did something extraordinary. In the book Outliers‚ Malcolm G talks about the 10‚000 hour rule
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practice. Part one also gave character examples of people such as Bill Joy and Bill Gates. Both Bill Joy and Bill Gates were born during the 1950’s. These two men have taken advantage of the relative-age effect to become industry 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
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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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case. In Malcolm Gladwell’s Outliers‚ he explains the significant amount of opportunities that successful people are given. Gladwell uses the example of Joe Flom to explain how timing is a huge factor in success. Early in his career‚ he was declined by a huge law firm‚ and had to settle for a firm that was just starting out. Even though this seems like a disadvantage‚ it turned into an opportunity because the new law firm turned out to grow into one of the best. Another example used in Outliers would
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