outliers
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, and the idiosyncratic experience of their upbringing. Malcolm Gladwell’s theory of success is correct because success not only need to intelligence and hard-working, and also social environment and opportunity as same as important. People who have advantage and hard work can influenced by success. Ten thousand hours of practice is a very difficult thing to achieve success. Success is the effect talent and hard work; however, some factors do not have much influence on whether or not a person becomes success. Gladwell states, “It’s all but impossible to reach that number all by yourself by the time you’re a young adult. You have to have parents who encourage and support you. You can’t be poor, because if you have to hold down a part-time job on the side to help make ends meet, there won’t be time left in the day to practice enough”(42). Gladwell emphasizes that his ideal formula for success is date of birth, family background, luck opportunity and the value of hard-work. In Outliers this book, Gladwell provides his readers with stories of Bill Gates, young math whiz discovers computer programming, born on October 28, 1955. This is the perfect birth date because Gladwell argues that people born in 1954 or 1955 are old enough to be part of the coming revolution but not so old that people missed this revolution. Gates born in wealthy family, his father was rich lawyer and his mother was the daughter of a well-to-do banker. Therefore, Gates could attend a private school
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, and the idiosyncratic experience of their upbringing. Malcolm Gladwell’s theory of success is correct because success not only need to intelligence and hard-working, and also social environment and opportunity as same as important. People who have advantage and hard work can influenced by success. Ten thousand hours of practice is a very difficult thing to achieve success. Success is the effect talent and hard work; however, some factors do not have much influence on whether or not a person becomes success. Gladwell states, “It’s all but impossible to reach that number all by yourself by the time you’re a young adult. You have to have parents who encourage and support you. You can’t be poor, because if you have to hold down a part-time job on the side to help make ends meet, there won’t be time left in the day to practice enough”(42). Gladwell emphasizes that his ideal formula for success is date of birth, family background, luck opportunity and the value of hard-work. In Outliers this book, Gladwell provides his readers with stories of Bill Gates, young math whiz discovers computer programming, born on October 28, 1955. This is the perfect birth date because Gladwell argues that people born in 1954 or 1955 are old enough to be part of the coming revolution but not so old that people missed this revolution. Gates born in wealthy family, his father was rich lawyer and his mother was the daughter of a well-to-do banker. Therefore, Gates could attend a private school