There is a story that is usually told about extremely successful people, a story that focuses on intelligence and ambition”- Malcolm Gladwell. Gladwell, the author of Outliers, views success as granted opportunities and advantages that not everybody is given by fate. Luck dictates how successful a person can be. Luck is achievement or failure supposedly brought by accident rather than through one’s actions. Most people are born without a great amount of luck which makes them work hard to reach their goal while others are born with a lot of luck. Success is one’s accomplishment of an objective, goal, or aim. In some cases luck can come from your date of birth, certain opportunities, and family background that can lead to a road of accomplishments.
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These qualities and privileges only come from the benefit of having luck. Gladwell argues that Bill Joy, an intelligent teenager who had a great amount of knowledge of programing computers led him to many opportunities granted by his brains (36). This real life situation is basically saying that Bill Joy was born with the talent and knowledge to become highly successful. Along the way he was receiving incredible opportunities because of how intelligent and privileged he was that his family as shown by their success, placed a large emphasis and a lot of pride in being successful. He had the chance to attend Michigan University then transfer to UC Berkeley. An unintentional but unique opportunity that Gates, Paul Allen, Steve Jobs, and Stave Shrnidt shared was there brilliant brains were born when technology was just recently becoming worldwide. That he did not have to work as hard as others did because this type of knowledge was natural for Gates. Being born at this specific time, they were surrounded by this technology, affording them the opportunity to be immersed in it. This proves that luck plays an important role because phenomenal people like Bill Gates and Steve Jobs were just naturals in the type of career they choose. Also because of luck they were given many chances and opportunities in life that did not require a lot of hard work for
These qualities and privileges only come from the benefit of having luck. Gladwell argues that Bill Joy, an intelligent teenager who had a great amount of knowledge of programing computers led him to many opportunities granted by his brains (36). This real life situation is basically saying that Bill Joy was born with the talent and knowledge to become highly successful. Along the way he was receiving incredible opportunities because of how intelligent and privileged he was that his family as shown by their success, placed a large emphasis and a lot of pride in being successful. He had the chance to attend Michigan University then transfer to UC Berkeley. An unintentional but unique opportunity that Gates, Paul Allen, Steve Jobs, and Stave Shrnidt shared was there brilliant brains were born when technology was just recently becoming worldwide. That he did not have to work as hard as others did because this type of knowledge was natural for Gates. Being born at this specific time, they were surrounded by this technology, affording them the opportunity to be immersed in it. This proves that luck plays an important role because phenomenal people like Bill Gates and Steve Jobs were just naturals in the type of career they choose. Also because of luck they were given many chances and opportunities in life that did not require a lot of hard work for