presented in a book titled Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell. Gladwell’s book presents a rule called the 10‚000-hour rule. The rule inspired at least a few other individuals to write their own works countering his argument. A specific example of a counter argument is David Bradley’s
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is a word that has different meanings for many people: some of them think success is the wealth‚ for some it is just making the world a better place. Success does not happen overnight as describes Malcolm Gladwell‚ the author of the book called‚ “Outliers: The Story of Success”. In most cases it takes a lot of practice. Sometimes the past of a person or the place where he/she was born affects the future of that person. Referring to some facts from one of Gladwell’s
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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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Andrew Fox. He didn’t go by that because it didn’t have a ring to it and decided to adopt the middle initial of the letter J. He choose that in a tribute to Michael J. Pollard and really liked the sound to that so‚ he went with J. Michael J. Fox is an outlier because he faced the troubles of Parkinson’s Disease. He was diagnosed with Parkinson’s in 1991 and didn’t tell the media until 1999. He was born June 9th‚ 1961 and was born in Canada. When he was little‚ he played ice hockey. He starred on the classic
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Jade Gallahair Mrs. Tabitha Ginther AP Language and Composition 2 December 2014 Rumination of Self: Outliers Final Assignment Privileges/Advantages: In my life I have been blessed with many privileges and advantages that others may have not had the opportunity to be exposed to. A major advantage that I’ve had during my life is growing up in a Christian home with both my parents‚ who care about my education. Growing up my parents always taught me that God comes first and my education comes second
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In result‚ I decided to read Outliers: The Story of Success‚ because I felt that the book would force me to think about ideas that I otherwise may not have as a junior in high school. For instance‚ my sister is a senior and working on the college application process. Sitting through
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The Story of Success What is success? The Merriam-Webster definition states “success is the attainment of wealth‚ favor‚ or eminence.” However‚ is this success means to all of us? Does success mean becoming famous? Becoming a millionaire? Becoming the president of the United States? Or‚ is success defined by more personal issues such as getting into your dream college or passing an exam that you spent weeks preparing for? Success means something different to everyone; in my opinion‚ it is defined
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While I was reading Outliers: the story of success‚ I was introduced to many new ideas and concepts as well as explained things that I had thought about‚ but never quite understood why they were the way they are or realized the outcome. The examples that were most personal to me were how the time of year the hockey players were born affected their success and the rice paddies and the three components to satisfying work. I found
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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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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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