Outliers, the story of success. What is an outlier? In Malcolm Gladwell's 'Outliers', he studied people who were successful under unordianry circumstances. "If you work hard enough and assert yourself, and use your imagination, you can shape the world to your desires."(151) Success is more about intuition than just luck itself. Malcolm Gladwell introduces an Italian villiage in Pennsylvania named Roseto after the Italian imigrants. Gladwell refferred to this study as "The Roseto Mystery." The Rosetan people amazed doctors with their low rates of heart disease. It was discovered that in this town, rarely anyone was ever seen or diagnosed with heart disease. The town of Roseta had the same water, the same neighborhood, and occupational mix.
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Gladwell says there are no shortcuts between hours of practice and achievment, to just floating to the top. Psychologist suggested that there were no 'naturals'. Althoguh a person can have natural talents , it won't do them any good if they never practice it or try to improve it. Overall Gladwell is saying that you will become better at something once you've practiced it. Gladwell suggest timing also plays a role in a person's success. William Joy for example, had the right skills at seemingly the right time. He had learned programming before it became popular, he also wrote Unix. Just around the time he hit his 10,000 hour mark, personal computing arrived. Another important factor to success is culture. Gladwell claims culture can encourage people to do certain things or just succeed in general. Gladwell even claims that cultural issues cause plane crashes. A good example of cultural influences would be Asians who spent centuries worling in rice paddies, a type of farming which requires meticulous care all year round, passed on this work ethic to the next generations, hence influencing them to stay working in the rice paddies. The way you were raised also had a huge impact on your success as well, claims Gladwell. Whether you had wealthy parents or less fortunate parents mattered. Wealthy parents were more likely to drive their children to doctor when they were sick, and tell them that if they had any health questions or concerns to
Gladwell says there are no shortcuts between hours of practice and achievment, to just floating to the top. Psychologist suggested that there were no 'naturals'. Althoguh a person can have natural talents , it won't do them any good if they never practice it or try to improve it. Overall Gladwell is saying that you will become better at something once you've practiced it. Gladwell suggest timing also plays a role in a person's success. William Joy for example, had the right skills at seemingly the right time. He had learned programming before it became popular, he also wrote Unix. Just around the time he hit his 10,000 hour mark, personal computing arrived. Another important factor to success is culture. Gladwell claims culture can encourage people to do certain things or just succeed in general. Gladwell even claims that cultural issues cause plane crashes. A good example of cultural influences would be Asians who spent centuries worling in rice paddies, a type of farming which requires meticulous care all year round, passed on this work ethic to the next generations, hence influencing them to stay working in the rice paddies. The way you were raised also had a huge impact on your success as well, claims Gladwell. Whether you had wealthy parents or less fortunate parents mattered. Wealthy parents were more likely to drive their children to doctor when they were sick, and tell them that if they had any health questions or concerns to