Gladwell's Outliers: The Story Of Success

In society there are various categories we were put into during the midst of our adolescence, and they are used to define us as not only students but citizens as well; Outliers: The Story of Success gave statistical explanations on how these categories either helped or harmed us. Children were and still are categorized from a young age through gifted testing, fitness testing, and standardized test testing but I could never understand why certain students performed better than others when they had the same opportunities education wise. Even applying this to my own primary school days and how well I was performing on these standardized tests, I was written off as ‘lucky’ or ‘gifted’ and I couldn’t figure out an explanation either so I went along with it. That is what the book explained to me, it explained to me why I was able to accomplish certain things others weren’t, and why others were able to accomplish things I wasn’t. …show more content…
However, Gladwell’s description of parenting styles showed that my mother sent me into school prepared to learn and develop along my peers. She wasn’t the perfect example of concerted cultivation because she wasn’t able to be involved in everything but she most definitely integrated language use and reasoning skills in my life well before my entry into kindergarten. She did by reading me a chapter from a book every night that eventually turned into me reading three to four hours on my own on school nights and even more during weekends and summer break, exceeding Gladwell’s magical number; and due to the hours put into reading and analyzing literature I excelled more in language use and emotional