Success In Malcolm Gladwell's Outliers

There are many secrets to success that many of us do not know about. Success is a process that can take many years to achieve. All the people who became successful with millions or billions of dollars did not just get lucky. People usually think that they just become lucky with fame and money, but that is not true. Based on the novel Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell there are many theories on how people became successful, and if we knew about these theories then many more of us would be able to become successful in life. It all starts when we are children and how our parents raise us to be. If parents knew about certain theories discussed in this novel then our children would become more educated on how they can be successful in life. If children are not educated while growing up then they are more likely not able to become successful in life. In this novel many theories are discussed such as the Matthew affect, 10,000 hour rule, the trouble with geniuses, the three lessons of Joe Flom, culture, and demographic luck and compared with …show more content…
These included the way you were taught to speak by your families. The first type that caught my attention was the IQ intelligence test. They use this test to measure how intelligent a person is. Chris Langan took this test and got a perfect score. They could not believe that he got a perfect score so he then took another IQ test that was designed for people who were too smart for the ordinary test (70). On that test he only missed one (71). His intelligence was greater than Albert Einstein. They say Chris Langan was born a genius he was able to speak at six months of age; by the age of three he was teaching himself how to read (71). The way he was raised determined how successful he would be. He was raised with a family that was poor and didn’t have much in life. He never truly understood how to communicate with people even though he had an intelligent