Making it to the Top
Appearing on the Time Magazine’s one hundred most influential people, Malcolm Gladwell is a Canadian journalist who started his career in New York (Famous Authors). As well as being a bestselling author of four books, Gladwell is a speaker and still continues to work as writer for “The New Yorker” since starting in 1996. His works often deal with research and exploration in the areas of sociology, psychology, and social psychology.
On September 3, 1963, Malcolm Gladwell was born in Fareham, Hampshire, England to Graham Gladwell, a British mathematics professor and Joyce, a Jamaican psychotherapist. When he was six, Malcolm and his family moved to Elmira, Ontario, Canada. In Canada, Malcolm’s father taught math and engineering …show more content…
Moreover, computer programmers, Bill Joy and Bill Gates, both born around the same time, have taken advantage of the relative-age effect to become successful. Gladwell not only exposes the mystery of self-determination, but also the tale that genius is born, not made. He claims “The Beatles” and Mozart are not so much inborn musical geniuses, but thrived only after thousands of hours of practice.
Part two of Outliers stresses the topic of cultural entitlements, which Gladwell says “persist, generation after generation, virtually intact...and they play such a role in directing attitudes and behavior that we cannot make sense of our world without them" (Gladwell). Gladwell is more diverse here as he inspects and examines both failure and success. Skillfully he moves from the “culture of honor” in Appalachia to the rice paddy cultivation in China that promotes patient problem solving. He explains and proves how a culture once known as being only of failure can be transformed and converted into one of
Appearing on the Time Magazine’s one hundred most influential people, Malcolm Gladwell is a Canadian journalist who started his career in New York (Famous Authors). As well as being a bestselling author of four books, Gladwell is a speaker and still continues to work as writer for “The New Yorker” since starting in 1996. His works often deal with research and exploration in the areas of sociology, psychology, and social psychology.
On September 3, 1963, Malcolm Gladwell was born in Fareham, Hampshire, England to Graham Gladwell, a British mathematics professor and Joyce, a Jamaican psychotherapist. When he was six, Malcolm and his family moved to Elmira, Ontario, Canada. In Canada, Malcolm’s father taught math and engineering …show more content…
Moreover, computer programmers, Bill Joy and Bill Gates, both born around the same time, have taken advantage of the relative-age effect to become successful. Gladwell not only exposes the mystery of self-determination, but also the tale that genius is born, not made. He claims “The Beatles” and Mozart are not so much inborn musical geniuses, but thrived only after thousands of hours of practice.
Part two of Outliers stresses the topic of cultural entitlements, which Gladwell says “persist, generation after generation, virtually intact...and they play such a role in directing attitudes and behavior that we cannot make sense of our world without them" (Gladwell). Gladwell is more diverse here as he inspects and examines both failure and success. Skillfully he moves from the “culture of honor” in Appalachia to the rice paddy cultivation in China that promotes patient problem solving. He explains and proves how a culture once known as being only of failure can be transformed and converted into one of