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    The Trouble with Geniuses

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    The Trouble with Geniuses Part One: Although both Chris Langen and Robert Oppenheimer were both geniuses‚ Oppenheimer had better life chances and more opportunities than did Chris Langan. Oppenheimer was born in a wealthy and well-known family and was in an upper social class. Therefore he had a richer cultural capital than Chris Langan because his parents taught him how to deal with adults and how to assert himself. They also encouraged him to take chances. For instance‚ when he has an opportunity

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    Trouble with Geniuses Gladwell (2008) purpose for writing "The Trouble with Geniuses‚" parts 1 and 2‚ was to communicate to his audience‚ that high IQ doesn’t not gives an individual a guaranty that an individual will be successful in their life time. It’s about practical intelligence‚ social economical background and self-motivation. Gladwell offers the readers information about induvial with high IQ and different approaches; and how they encounter difficulties in their life‚ such as Langan an induvial

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    Explain. Do you feel you hold a good grasp of practical intelligence? Highlight four ways this semester‚ either at school‚ work or play that you believe will help you build practical intelligence. In “Trouble with Geniuses”‚ Gladwell explains one important skill that one must have in order to become an outlier. The author states that readers often jump to a conclusion that success is determined by ones IQ or talent. However‚ those are not the factors that determine success. It is practical intelligence

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    Outliers

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    Outliers An outlier is an individual who behaves in an unusual manner‚ “a scientific term to describe things or phenomena that lie outside normal experience.” This is the definition Malcolm Gladwell uses to describe a successful person. In this book‚ subtitled “The Story of Success‚” Gladwell attempts to explain why some people are more successful than others. He does this by identifying cultural and social factors that contribute to opportunities in individual’s lives. Through a series of case

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    The Outliers

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    There´s many a slip between the cup and the lip The Outliers exposes remarkable stories about successful people and goes behind the curtains to highlight key events in the life of these individuals that led them to their good fortune. For the most part Mr. Gladwell thesis is pretty simple; in order to win the lottery you must first buy a lottery ticket. Of course the author wrote a book on this therefore he goes a lot more into detail on how and why was the ticket purchased‚ what ethnicities

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    In the book called Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell‚ Malcolm has a chapter called The Trouble with Geniuses‚ Part I where Gladwell spends this chapter showing that a high IQ is not a voucher for a free ride on the success train. He goes to show that once you reach a certain IQ‚ you are just as likely as to be successful as someone with a much higher IQ score. My thoughts are this is why people exercise all parts of their brains. Gladwell is an excellent writer‚ no doubt. I thoroughly enjoyed this book

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    genius”‚ is probably the worst wish you could ever ask for. Asking to be a genius is like digging your own grave. The statement “Geniuses live the easy life” is most likely the biggest lie and misconception in this world. Geniuses tend to struggle with some of the more ordinary mortal tasks. Yes‚ these are the things that most of us take for granted‚ but which cause geniuses an endless amount of misery and torment. And just in case you’re not a genius and wonder just exactly how their weird brains really

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    Outlier

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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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    outliers

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    Jingwen(jeanie) Feng Professor Heard English 92/93 05/05/2014 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

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    References: Gladwell‚ M. (2008). Outliers. New York: Little‚Brown and Company.

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