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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Outliers is Malcolm Gladwell’s examination of what makes some people a lot more successful than others. These "outliers‚" as he calls them‚ are commonly thought to possess some sort of talent and intelligence far above a normal average person‚ but he also looks at this popular belief by looking at the background of some famous outliers. Gladwell begins his research in a small town of Roseto‚ Pennsylvania. The town is known for having a remarkably low rate of heart disease among its residents. After
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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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Mao was the founding father of the People’s Republic of China. His Maoism thoughts made him an outlier within the Chinese Communist Party and within the international communist movement. The circumstances of the peasantry under Mao were chaotic with the Agrarian Land Reform to the Great Leap Forward. The conditions for the peasants did not improve‚ as well as China as a whole. Mao became a larger outlier within the Chinese Communist Party and international communists‚ from the beginning of the civil
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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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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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successful has been a question that’s challenged individuals 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
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Gladwell (2009) points out in chapter 3 and 4 of the Outliers that we possess a misunderstanding of the meaning of success. American education links the results of testing in children to offer them greater opportunities‚ depending in their IQ. But a high IQ result doesn’t measure the levels of creativity or creative thinking Therefore‚ Gladwell believes that success is the outcome from having a high IQ‚ education and upbringing. Gladwell proves his point by using Terman’s experiments‚ and the result
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opportunities‚ background‚ and character determines their success. Specifically‚ opportunities can make an enormous difference in whether one succeeds or not. When receiving opportunities others aren’t‚ an advantage is automatically in action. In "Outliers"‚ a
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The amount of Final Destination movies that I’ve watched will always make me anxious in airports‚ even if I know the movie is pure fiction. While reading Gladwell’s theory in Outliers about plane crashes being a result of poor communication and seven consecutive minor human errors (184)‚ I could feel my heart racing. I felt so frustrated because I felt like all of it could’ve been prevented. For example‚ Klotz using the word “ah” while telling the ATC that the plane was running out of fuel made me
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