Outliers Book Analysis “Outliers: The Story of Success” by Malcolm Gladwell Abstract: Gladwell‚ M. (2008). Outliers: The story of success. New York‚ NY: Little‚ Brown and Company. Outliers is a well written‚ fun‚ and easy to read book overall about success‚ and how particular factors can lend to one being successful. It details the success stories of many individuals such as The Beatles‚ Bill Gates‚ and Canadian Ice hockey players to name a few. The non-fiction book does an
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“...If you work hard enough and assert yourself‚ and use your mind and imagination‚ you can shape the world to your desires.” In the book ’outliers’ by Malcolm Gladwell‚ Gladwell States that there is no such thing as a self made person. That if you succeed in life it depends on who you are and where you came from. I disagree with this statement for the reason that‚ although this may be occasionally correct‚ mostly it isn’t true . There are many people who have created success for themselves and
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Outliers: The Story of Success is an informative book by Malcolm Gladwell dealing with the topic of human success. The book talks about outliers or “men and women who do things that are out of the ordinary.” by Malcolm Gladwell. In Gladwell’s book‚ he mentions that most humans believe that the successful people in the world are “self-made” but that isn’t completely true. The overall theme of the book is that successful human beings don’t rise up from nothing. There are many factors that play into
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differing opinions on what an outlier would look like but the author‚ Malcolm Gladwell‚ of the book‚ Outliers‚ The Story of Success‚ defines it by the book. It says‚ “Something that is situated away from or classed differently from a main or related body. A statistical observation that is markedly different in value from the others of the sample.” Gladwell uses this definition as a baseline for the rest of his intriguing book. Gladwell gives us plenty of examples of known outliers in the world and through
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Right Time The book Outliers written by Maclolm Gladwell is a book about success. Throughout the book he gives numerous examples of how people have achieved and in some instances‚ not achieved success. Popular belief would suggest that people who are considered outliers have gotten there through hard work and innate talent. Gladwell however‚ suggest that something is contributing to people being able to seek the levels of success that would make them an outlier. Gladwell believes that hidden
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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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book “the outliers”‚ Gladwell gives the reader a overall view of what his big message is in the book. What he is trying to inform the reader. He titles the book “The Story of Success”‚ he titles the book this to appeal to his audience. He is trying to appeal to those who want to strive and succeed in life‚ people who believe in the “climb to success”. He then begins the first chapter with a story that he lengthens and draws out he fills the reader with a suspenseful feeling. Gladwell lets the reader
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Executive Summary The novel Outliers‚ aims to investigate the very thing we want for our family‚ our students‚ and ourselves. For most of our lives we have believed that with hard work‚ anyone can achieve success. That had to be the reason that poor immigrants like Andrew Carnegie and college dropouts like Bill Gates achieved unimaginable wealth. Most of us were taught that working harder than anyone else would lead to ultimate success. While the author‚ Malcolm Gladwell‚ does not dispute that hard
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In the second chapter of his book‚ Outliers‚ Malcom Gladwell writes to his readers about the importance of repetitions. In this chapter‚ Gladwell expresses and gives examples of the importance of repetitions. In order for one to become an expert or excel in something‚ one must repeat this action for at least 10‚000 hours. Gladwell’s first example of the 10‚000-hour rule is Bill Joy‚ a sixteen-year-old boy. He was interested in computer programming‚ which was a hard thing to learn about in 1970’s
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Among the thought provoking topics Gladwell presents in Blink‚ I found slicing as one the most interesting. The idea that short snippets of information can potentially allow more accurate perceptions of people and situations than longer periods with in-depth study and exposure to information. The awareness of the unconscious realizations occurring much quicker and more accurately than cognitive thought‚ inspires additional pontificate on ways to cut through the noise that interferes with conscious
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