In the first section, Gladwell opens this chapter with a discussion about a competition between two teams in the Canadian Hockey league, the team players consisted of the future stars of the sport, and he tells us that the players had been playing hockey since they were very little kids. He tells us that the Canadian Hockey is a Meritocracy, which is a situation where those who show talent and promise are rewarded for their efforts. He included other examples of how other sport choose their future stars. Gladwell asks questions of what makes an individual successful. In this section, he hopes to convince us that the various kinds of personal explanation of success do not work. He claims that people do not achieve success based on talent alone
