Analysis Of Outliers By Malcolm Gladwell

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, strong, and typically born in the first three months of the year because they were more physically mature than their peers at the time of Junior League Hockey try-outs. This meant that they were put on the more advanced teams that were given