Focus Questions 1. In the novel‚ Outliers‚ the author‚ Malcolm Gladwell‚ defines key factors that leads one to be successful. To begin with‚ Gladwell asserts that “parentage and patronage” are key factors of success (19). In other words‚ success is measured based on one’s maturity level. For example‚ a younger child in the same grade level as an older child is more likely to be at a disadvantage because he/sh e lacks the cognitive skills that the older child has developed. Therefore‚ the older child
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Student Name Professor Course Title Date The Review of the book: ‘Outliers: The Story of Success’ by Malcolm Gladwell The book by Malcolm Gladwell is really a great story that might reveal the secrets of success. The author tries to understand the other possibilities of gaining success except the pure talent and innate ability. The main points of his book are the importance of hard work‚ the perfect timing which helps to appear at a right time in a right place. He also pays attention to
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summer break my goal was to get my hands on as many books as possible. One of the books that I came across was called “Outliers” by Malcolm Gladwell. After reading this book on my flight to Asia I fell in love with the book and admired the author. His writing was organized in a way where it was easy to comprehend and he was able to support his evidence with research and statistics. Although there are a lot of scholarly terms that is used to support his study‚ he uses a more simplified language to make
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In Outliers‚ Malcolm Gladwell argues that success is a culmination of many circumstances and opportunities in a person’s life‚ not a testament to personal talent or ability like our society views it. Gladwell supports his central argument using case studies. His book is divided into two sections‚“Opportunity” and “Legacy‚” where he further explains his claim using individual cases of either success or failure. In the first example‚ Gladwell points out that the best ice hockey players are fast
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Francisco Ayala May 9‚ 2012 English 101 Outliers Malcolm Gladwell is a speaker‚ bestselling author‚ and Canadian journalist. He is a writer for the New Yorker since 1996. Gladwell has four New York Times bestseller books he has written. Among one of those books is Outliers: The story of success (2008). Outlier‚ a nonfiction book‚ had to do with social psychology. Outlier is about the success of people who do not fit into our normal understanding of achievement. Gladwell points out that many
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Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell is about how there are certain cultural and societal events that happen to give rise to successful people. He debunks the myth that successful people are “self-made”. In this book he explains how there are hidden advantages for certain and how these people are able to rise in the world where others cannot. Gladwell states “great men and women are beneficiaries of specialization‚ collaboration‚ time‚ place‚ and culture.” Throughout the book Malcolm
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page 40 of Outliers‚ a novel written by pop-psych author Malcolm Gladwell‚ neurologist Daniel Levitin explains‚ “The emerging picture from such studies is that ten thousand hours of practice is required to achieve the level of mastery associated with being a world class-expert--- in anything.” Gladwell takes this quote and heavily relies on it with his thesis for the next chapter‚ which basically says that anyone can become a master in anything with excessive amounts of practice. He claims that the
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Griffin Michel Ms. Donohoo English 12 - G 14 January 2016 Nonfiction Book Review - Outliers Introduction The classic American success story: a person is born to nothing‚ has an idea‚ and‚ by sheer power of their own will and determination‚ makes it big--or so it would seem. These are the stories‚ the stories of billionaires‚ professional athletes‚ lawyers‚ and scientists‚ that Malcolm Gladwell examines in his 2008 book‚ Outliers: Stories of Success. He delves deep into the stories of successful
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There are two rules for success: 1) Do not tell all your secrets. According to Malcolm Gladwell’s Outliers‚ success can make someone’s life marvelous. However‚ Gladwell does not follow the rules for success and tells us all the tips and tricks that he can find. Gladwell’s tactics when talking to parents and future adults‚ perfectly informs them that they can be successful and here is exactly what to look out for. He does this because he cares and wants them to become successful. Gladwell also
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that is situated away from or classed differently from a main or related body 2: a statistical observation that is markedly different in value from the others of the sample”1 3: a novel which‚ unlike other novels‚ produces no useful information nor places an impact on the reader’s cognition of the world around his or herself Mr. Malcolm Gladwell has always been a hero of mine—from wishing as a kid that I had his convivial hair in which begged to be patted ‚ to wanting his mindset and brilliance
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