In Gladwell’s Outliers, his main argument is all about how success has more to do with the opportunities that are given and taking advantage of them. He is constantly justifying throughout the book his belief that success is not always based on talent but the chances that the successful people were given. Also how things you can not control, for example how close you were born to a cut-off date, can make a major difference in your success later in life. “It is not the brightest who succeed… Nor is success simply the sum of the decisions and efforts we make on our own behalf… Outliers are those who have been given opportunities-and who have had the strength and presence of mind to seize them” (Gladwell 267).
After reading the text it is clear the intended audience for this argument are people in the younger generation who are rising to become the next successors. They will be able to think about this book when progressing into their future career paths. They will know going in that it is not all about the amount of talent they have or how smart they are, but the amount of opportunities given to them will determine their success. So this book will teach them to take on anything that comes their way because they were taught …show more content…
In every chapter, he would not just have one person's story of success and why they ended up that way, but he will have multiple people's stories. So these were never just random thoughts within each chapter, it comes from multiple accounts, and often Gladwell would include scientific research along with his analysis of one's success story. “Power distance is concerned with attitudes toward hierarchy, specifically with how much a particular culture values and respects authority” (Gladwell 204-205). This is one example of how Gladwell will use scientific research (such as statistics of every country’s Power Distance Index) to prove his points, and that makes him very
After reading the text it is clear the intended audience for this argument are people in the younger generation who are rising to become the next successors. They will be able to think about this book when progressing into their future career paths. They will know going in that it is not all about the amount of talent they have or how smart they are, but the amount of opportunities given to them will determine their success. So this book will teach them to take on anything that comes their way because they were taught …show more content…
In every chapter, he would not just have one person's story of success and why they ended up that way, but he will have multiple people's stories. So these were never just random thoughts within each chapter, it comes from multiple accounts, and often Gladwell would include scientific research along with his analysis of one's success story. “Power distance is concerned with attitudes toward hierarchy, specifically with how much a particular culture values and respects authority” (Gladwell 204-205). This is one example of how Gladwell will use scientific research (such as statistics of every country’s Power Distance Index) to prove his points, and that makes him very