Being successful in life is not always easy because of the different perspectives that success can be achieved. With many theories out there on success, it is hard to figure out what is needed to be done to gain success in everyone’s life since there are many different beliefs out there that can lead to it. In the book “Outliers” by Malcolm Gladwell, there are numerous theories that are covered with examples of successful people that clearly show how success can be done in not just one way but many others. The most known people that are considered to be successful are billionaires and celebrities who all have gained success in their life in their own diverse ways. A good set of successful people in the world today that I have chosen to talk
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In Malcolm Gladwell’s “Outliers”, he covers the thought that how situations are handled have a lot to deal with what culture you come from that furthers into being successful or not in what a certain situation deals with. Although talking about culture in the previous chapter, Gladwell continues to discuss this topic because how certain people deal with issues differently based on the culture that they come from. Various aspects that could be possible reasons plane crashes happen but one that really stood out to me was him talking about “mitigated speech”; which he really shows is his thesis about Korean Air accidents that happened in 1990. “The term used by linguists to describe what Klotz was engaging in that moment is “mitigated speech,” which refers to any attempt to downplay or sugarcoat the meaning of what is being said” (Gladwell). In “Outliers”, it is also discussed that mitigated speech is something that many pilots are familiar with because when going through flight school “Plane crashes are much more likely to be the result of an accumulation of minor difficulties and seemingly trivial malfunctions” (Gladwell). Mitigated speech is not only a tool that is taught but needs to be reinforced; although pilots have education of mitigated speech education can be looked at more when it comes to …show more content…
Chapter 8 in the book clearly talks about how success doesn’t come easy since hard work needs to be put into what it is that you want to do to be successful. “Virtually, every success story we’ve see in the book so far involves someone or some group working harder than their peers”(Gladwell). Although hard work has been talked about since the beginning of this book, a great perspective that isn’t really looked at too much is how success is in different cultures around the world. A good example that Gladwell decides to use in chapter 8 of the book is the way that Chinese and Americans are taught things differently such as number counting that we use in solving math problems. A lesson that we can learn that was discussed in chapter 8 is that our educational system doesn’t really have any problems in filling our children with knowledge but instead what we need to focus on more is what is being done to fill that child with knowledge during the time school is not in session. With children having summer break, some parents have decided to continue filling their children’s head with knowledge for the two months off, where as some parents are not really concerned about doing that; only shows the difference when it comes to the child performance on a test score on how much they know for their
In Malcolm Gladwell’s “Outliers”, he covers the thought that how situations are handled have a lot to deal with what culture you come from that furthers into being successful or not in what a certain situation deals with. Although talking about culture in the previous chapter, Gladwell continues to discuss this topic because how certain people deal with issues differently based on the culture that they come from. Various aspects that could be possible reasons plane crashes happen but one that really stood out to me was him talking about “mitigated speech”; which he really shows is his thesis about Korean Air accidents that happened in 1990. “The term used by linguists to describe what Klotz was engaging in that moment is “mitigated speech,” which refers to any attempt to downplay or sugarcoat the meaning of what is being said” (Gladwell). In “Outliers”, it is also discussed that mitigated speech is something that many pilots are familiar with because when going through flight school “Plane crashes are much more likely to be the result of an accumulation of minor difficulties and seemingly trivial malfunctions” (Gladwell). Mitigated speech is not only a tool that is taught but needs to be reinforced; although pilots have education of mitigated speech education can be looked at more when it comes to …show more content…
Chapter 8 in the book clearly talks about how success doesn’t come easy since hard work needs to be put into what it is that you want to do to be successful. “Virtually, every success story we’ve see in the book so far involves someone or some group working harder than their peers”(Gladwell). Although hard work has been talked about since the beginning of this book, a great perspective that isn’t really looked at too much is how success is in different cultures around the world. A good example that Gladwell decides to use in chapter 8 of the book is the way that Chinese and Americans are taught things differently such as number counting that we use in solving math problems. A lesson that we can learn that was discussed in chapter 8 is that our educational system doesn’t really have any problems in filling our children with knowledge but instead what we need to focus on more is what is being done to fill that child with knowledge during the time school is not in session. With children having summer break, some parents have decided to continue filling their children’s head with knowledge for the two months off, where as some parents are not really concerned about doing that; only shows the difference when it comes to the child performance on a test score on how much they know for their