In the book‚ Outliers‚ Malcom Gladwell expresses situations in different people’s lives through statistics and probability. This book focuses on the “Outliers” of the world‚ these people are the smartest‚ most successful‚ and well achieved human beings. He describes how we pay too much attention to what successful people. We observe minor things like and how they live‚ and not enough attention to their background‚ their culture‚ their family‚ their generation‚ and the way they live‚ and their upbringing
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Outliers An outlier is an individual who behaves in an unusual manner‚ “a scientific term to describe things or phenomena that lie outside normal experience.” This is the definition Malcolm Gladwell uses to describe a successful person. In this book‚ subtitled “The Story of Success‚” Gladwell attempts to explain why some people are more successful than others. He does this by identifying cultural and social factors that contribute to opportunities in individual’s lives. Through a series of case
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Jingwen(jeanie) Feng Professor Heard English 92/93 05/05/2014 What Outliers Show us about Success Many people believe that success has a direct correlation to one’s intelligence‚ ambition‚ and personality traits‚ but in fact‚ those are not what someone successful. As described by Malcolm Gladwell in the book Outliers‚ the successful become that way as a result of many factors that come their way. Gladwell shows that surrounds the successful are their culture‚ their family‚ their generation
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The 10‚000 Hour Rule is the idea that it takes about 10‚000 hours to master a skill. In Outliers‚ Gladwell uses Bill Gates as an example. According to Gladwell‚ Gates spent approximately 10‚000 hours practicing coding‚ honing the skills that he would later use to build his multi-billion dollar software company known as Microsoft. Bill Gates is a real-life example of the idiom “Practice makes perfect”. The 10‚000 hour also factors into education. In order to ensure success in school‚ I must reform
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An outlier is a person or thing situated away or detached from the main body or system. In other words‚ an outlier is a person who goes out of their way and does something no one thought was possible for them to do. Many people in the book Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell did things that people thought weren’t possible. People like Bill joy‚ Martin Luther king Jr. are all outliers because this individuals all did something extraordinary. In the book Outliers‚ Malcolm G talks about the 10‚000 hour rule
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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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In the book called Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell‚ Malcolm has a chapter called The Trouble with Geniuses‚ Part I where Gladwell spends this chapter showing that a high IQ is not a voucher for a free ride on the success train. He goes to show that once you reach a certain IQ‚ you are just as likely as to be successful as someone with a much higher IQ score. My thoughts are this is why people exercise all parts of their brains. Gladwell is an excellent writer‚ no doubt. I thoroughly enjoyed this book
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understood success compared to the way Malcolm Gladwell argues is the circumstances and families that create success. Previous to reading this book‚ I strongly believed that the way to become successful was to put in hard work. For example‚ my theory to success was similar along the lines to what Malcolm Gladwell discusses earlier in the book. He says‚ “Practice isn’t the thing you do once you’re good. It’s the thing you do that makes you good”(Gladwell‚ 2008). I believed if you practiced what you
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Nowadays‚ the path to success seems to be different for each individual‚ as some people have unfair advantages to help them excel faster. Often times‚ these advantages stem from circumstances no one even has control over. Through his book Outliers‚ Malcolm Gladwell claims that the idea of a self-made man is a logical fallacy as almost all successful people have had a leg up over others. While a small portion of success is due to pure talent‚ Gladwell’s argument holds true as most super-achievers can
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what it was about. Outlier is a term that we use in math. Something out of the ordinary‚ a number that is not like the others‚ different. Who would have thought that this book was going to talk about people? I thought it was so clever to call people outliers. What an intelligent way to describe those people. To describe the people out of the ordinary‚ the talented ones and to explain why they are so. The first chapter is called the Matthew effect. The author‚ Malcolm Gladwell‚ opens the books by
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