Luck’s Role On Success
Have you ever thought about what is success or what makes us successful individuals? Each person has a different opinion about what is success and what factors make us a successful person. In Malcolm Gladwell book Outliers, he explains that every individual is personally responsible for his or her achievements. He analyzes the factors that achieve a high levels of success. One idea that Gladwell mentions is The Matthew Effect (what is Mathew Effect? Explain it please! EX: -> …. The Mathew Effect; A study where Gladwell worked on. ) He believes people “Who are most likely to be given the kinds of special opportunities” are the ones that achieve that further success (30). He continues to explain how luck influences our …show more content…
He explains different factors that gain high quality of success. One of these factors is Luck. In the book he gave an example of why professional hockey and soccer players were chosen to be hockey and soccer players and why some of professional hockey and soccer players are born in the specific months such as January, February and March. He believes that these players were lucky to be chosen and their date of birth had a big influence on their success as professional hockey and soccer players. Gladwell talks about the cutoff dates for hockey players. The cutoff is January 1st and children must be 10 years in order to become hockey player. Some of these children are born after January 1st. They are almost 10 years old but, they couldn’t join the team because they did not turn 10 years old in January 1st. Therefore they need to wait until the next January 1st to be able to join the team. However; the year after they are almost 11 years old. They are older, bigger, and mature, so they have higher chance of getting in to the team. They will move to a better team, have more opportunity to receive better coach and practice more, so they become better than other players just because they are older than other students. Therefore; they are lucky that they were born later during the …show more content…
I was 17 years old and I didn’t know how to speak the English language. This was also true for my younger sibling. He couldn’t speak the English language and he was 3 years younger than me. I was in High school and my brother was in middle school when we got here. In order to graduate from High school in the United State of America, students should complete 4 years of High School. Since I arrived during my senior year in high school I could not finish High school because I was unable to get enough credits. Therefore I did not get a high school Diploma. On the other side, my younger brother was 14 years and had an opportunity to graduate from high school, because he was able to start from freshmen year. He was lucky to come to United States during his freshman year of his high school, because he was able to finish all his credits and get a high school diploma. I was still developing my English when I came to college, so I had to take ESL classes at Irvine Valley College to improve my reading and writing skills. It took me five semesters until I improved my English to have the chance to take Writing 201, which is the last level of ESL writings. As my brother had the opportunity in high school to take all of his ESL classes, he was placed in Writing one. When my brother got in college he didn’t took any of these ESL classes at Irvine Valley College. This
Have you ever thought about what is success or what makes us successful individuals? Each person has a different opinion about what is success and what factors make us a successful person. In Malcolm Gladwell book Outliers, he explains that every individual is personally responsible for his or her achievements. He analyzes the factors that achieve a high levels of success. One idea that Gladwell mentions is The Matthew Effect (what is Mathew Effect? Explain it please! EX: -> …. The Mathew Effect; A study where Gladwell worked on. ) He believes people “Who are most likely to be given the kinds of special opportunities” are the ones that achieve that further success (30). He continues to explain how luck influences our …show more content…
He explains different factors that gain high quality of success. One of these factors is Luck. In the book he gave an example of why professional hockey and soccer players were chosen to be hockey and soccer players and why some of professional hockey and soccer players are born in the specific months such as January, February and March. He believes that these players were lucky to be chosen and their date of birth had a big influence on their success as professional hockey and soccer players. Gladwell talks about the cutoff dates for hockey players. The cutoff is January 1st and children must be 10 years in order to become hockey player. Some of these children are born after January 1st. They are almost 10 years old but, they couldn’t join the team because they did not turn 10 years old in January 1st. Therefore they need to wait until the next January 1st to be able to join the team. However; the year after they are almost 11 years old. They are older, bigger, and mature, so they have higher chance of getting in to the team. They will move to a better team, have more opportunity to receive better coach and practice more, so they become better than other players just because they are older than other students. Therefore; they are lucky that they were born later during the …show more content…
I was 17 years old and I didn’t know how to speak the English language. This was also true for my younger sibling. He couldn’t speak the English language and he was 3 years younger than me. I was in High school and my brother was in middle school when we got here. In order to graduate from High school in the United State of America, students should complete 4 years of High School. Since I arrived during my senior year in high school I could not finish High school because I was unable to get enough credits. Therefore I did not get a high school Diploma. On the other side, my younger brother was 14 years and had an opportunity to graduate from high school, because he was able to start from freshmen year. He was lucky to come to United States during his freshman year of his high school, because he was able to finish all his credits and get a high school diploma. I was still developing my English when I came to college, so I had to take ESL classes at Irvine Valley College to improve my reading and writing skills. It took me five semesters until I improved my English to have the chance to take Writing 201, which is the last level of ESL writings. As my brother had the opportunity in high school to take all of his ESL classes, he was placed in Writing one. When my brother got in college he didn’t took any of these ESL classes at Irvine Valley College. This