Chapter Summary Of Outliers By Malcolm Gladwell

In chapter 1 of the book Outlier by Malcolm Gladwell, Gladwell introduces the “Matthew effect” which he gives his general description of an individual merit. An individual merit is earned by evaluating people’s performance across a wide range of potentials skills. He gives an example of a Canadian hockey player who rises to the top of sport in Canada. As a young child, Canadian boys begins to plays sport at the beginner level, before they were even in kindergarten. From that point on, there are leagues for every age class, and at each of those levels, the players are sifted, groomed and evaluated. And by the time players reach mid-teens, the very best of the best have been channeled into an elite league known as Major Junior A, which is the …show more content…
Gladwell conceded that innate talent is defined as achievement plus preparation. He also refers to studies from psychologist K. Anders Ericsson that examined the practices habits of expert and amateur musicians and chess player. These studies found out that no expert rose to the top without practices and no amateur failed in spite of many hours of practice. Consequently, the more talented individuals were always the individuals who practiced the most. Next, Gladwell introduce Mozart who composed his first masterwork when he was twenty-one. He had been composing concertos for about ten years before to that time. Without the opportunity for intense, extend and focused practice, no one can become exceptionally successful at any given field. Also in other to become successful one must need parents who support their children by encouraging them and have enough money so that the individual do not have to work for a living in their spear …show more content…
For instance, he pick two famous individual like the Beatles, who is the most popular rock bands of all time, and Bill Gates, who is one the world richest men. Prior to the Beatles arriving in to the United States, John Lennons and Paul McCartmey had been played together for about seven years. Then, he compared which is longer in terms of intensive practices what is more, it those long preparation were characterized by the same intensive practice that shaped the career of professorial athletes, Bill Joy and world class musician. Fifth, Gladwell turns to the history and career of Bill Gates. Bill Gates was a brilliant, young math whiz who discovers computer programming. At a young age he dropped out of Harvard in order to starts a little computer company called Microsoft with his friends. Afterward, Bill Gates manages to secure an internship with a tech company and even spent a semester away from school, honing his programming