Golden Opportunities And Talents In Malcolm Gladwell's 'Outliers'

Golden Opportunities and Talents A man slowly walks down a royal red carpet, he is wearing a black satin suit and has a handsome look on his pale face, but who is it, it’s Bill Gates. How did he become successful enough to walk this carpet? The truth is that he earned his way on the walkway for celebrities because he made a prominent identity for himself. Furthermore, Bill Gates rise to success is explained in Malcolm Gladwell’s Outliers. It is also explained that a person’s identity is developed due to the key opportunities and talents that are acquired over a lifetime. Opportunities are the key factor to success, which in turn build an identity for the person who takes the chance. For instance, Morton Janklow, a man who built a law firm from scratch, became a lawyer as a result of his unusually lucky birth time. He was born on May 30, 1930, during the height of the Great Depression. This means by the time he was forty it was the year 1970 when the need for lawyers skyrocketed. For instance, with corporate takeovers and proxy battles, businesses needed lawyers to keep their businesses open and out of the hands of other
In chapter two of Gladwell’s book, he states “In fact, researchers have settled on what they believe is the magic number for true expertise: 10,000 hours”, this means that in order to achieve maximum potential in a subject, many thousand hours must be put in to develop a talent (Gladwell 40). A direct example of talent is the pop culture icon, the Beatles. The Beatles is the band that started “The British Invasion” of American music. In the Beatles early days as performers they played at a nightclub in Hamburg, Germany. The Beatles grew their talents over the course of their time playing at the club. They played over 270 times in one year and a half at this club, which gave them the chance to develop as musicians and move to America to become one of the most famous bands