Rags To Riches By Malcom Gladwell: Formula Of Success

Formula of Success
(Hard Work)+(10,000 hours of practice)+(teamwork and Communication)x(Opportunities)(Intelligence)

1. The people who stand before kings may look like they did it all by themselves. But in fact they are invariably the beneficiaries of hidden advantages and extraordinary opportunities and cultural legacies that allow them to learn and work hard and make sense of the world in ways others cannot. (pg. 19)
a. Malcom Gladwell wrote this book to show that “Rags to Riches” stories have more to them than just hard work and a good personality, he tells the reader that success is the product of cultures, opportunities, and many other hidden advantages. Not just one man and his desire to succeed. This book will teach the reader
And what's ten years? Well, it's roughly how long it takes to put in ten thousand hours of hard practice. Ten thousand hours is the magic number of greatness...Practice isn't the thing you do once you're good. It's the thing you do that makes you good. (pg. 41-42)
a. Practice makes perfect, a common idiom many have heard hundreds of times. However, Malcom Gladwell has said it better,” Practice isn’t the thing you do once you’re good. It’s the thing you do that makes you good”. This is one of the most important lesson Outliers will teach. Without the ten thousand hours or ten years of practice, one can never be successful in whatever art they strive to perfect. Without those ten thousand hours even the great Mozart hadn’t created an original masterpiece until 21 years of age, 10 years after he had begun composing, ten thousand hours after he had begun composing. The Beatles, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr. They had also practiced and performed for ten thousand hours in Hamburg, performing eight hours a day, seven days a week. Then when they returned to Liverpool they got better and better until, they became the Beatles that we know and remember. Practice is one of the keys to success, and without it success can never be
If we put the stories of hockey players and the Beatles and Bill Joy and Bill Gates together, I think we get a more complete picture of the path to success. Joy and Gates and the Beatles are all undeniably talented...That much is obvious. But what truly distinguishes their histories is not their extraordinary talent but their extraordinary opportunities. (pg. 55)
a. This quote builds on the ideas of the first excerpt, opportunities. Opportunities make us who we are, if we accept them and use them as best we can we will become successful. If we don’t use them life will be ordinary, or worse. Additionally, Opportunities create our personalities, those who drew pictures and used any opportunity to do so at a young age love drawing now and probably participate in art competitions when the opportunity arises. By doing so their artistic talent increases, they get practice. and as they win those competitions they become known, if at first throughout their school and later at the county level and then the state and so on, until they truly become artists. Many successful artists probably went on that path. Bill gates path wasn’t all to different, first he developed an interest in computing. His school had a terminal, unlike most colleges in the country, which allowed him to learn coding. Bill Gates took advantage of that opportunity. His family was wealth which allowed him to purchase usage time. As these opportunities piled up he became an authority and successful entrepreneur in