Introduction
Roseto Mystery is the fact that people from the little town, Roseto, did not suffer from heart diseases. The only thing that affected them was the old age while people in other parts of the United States commonly had heart diseases. It seemed mysterious to Wolf that people from this small town were not hit by heart diseases even though the villagers did not eat more healthily, exercise more, or have better genetics. He concluded that it is merely the whole community and the interactions between people causing them to have no people under the age of sixty-five having trouble with heart diseases. Gladwell’s overarching idea in the introduction is that the outliers, or people who succeed, always think beyond themselves, look over, …show more content…
He put coding in his first priority and constantly worked on his ability until he got better over time. He was practicing coding. As for The Beatles, they would not become this successful if they didn't have the opportunity to perform countless times during the beginning of their careers. They performed at so many different places at different times and days that they became better and better. They were good because they practiced playing their music. Bill Gates spent a tremendous amount of time doing computer programming that he decided not to do anything else, and he became really good at it eventually. These three scenarios show that “practice isn’t the thing you do once you’re good. It’s the thing you do that makes you …show more content…
I’ve loved math even before reading this chapter. The contents clearly explain the reason why I love math so much -- because I’m really good at it, I love math more than others do. I’ve never thought about why I have good math abilities. Only after the author talked about the relation between math abilities and the language one used to learn math, I found the reason. Using Chinese to learn math is so much straightforward because it takes less time for me to read out numbers and memorize it. On the other side, when using English to learn math, one has to deal with not only math, but also English grammar.
Epilogue
When Gladwell states that “the outlier in the end is not an outlier at all,” he means that outliers are outliers because they receive a series of opportunities and advantages in addition to the potential and intelligence they already have. The reason why some people succeed is not that they have better abilities, but that they have better luck in some situations and there are more opportunities offered to them that led them to the road of success. On the other hand, one who has amazing potentials to be an outlier would not necessarily succeed because of the combination of different factors that happen in one’s
Roseto Mystery is the fact that people from the little town, Roseto, did not suffer from heart diseases. The only thing that affected them was the old age while people in other parts of the United States commonly had heart diseases. It seemed mysterious to Wolf that people from this small town were not hit by heart diseases even though the villagers did not eat more healthily, exercise more, or have better genetics. He concluded that it is merely the whole community and the interactions between people causing them to have no people under the age of sixty-five having trouble with heart diseases. Gladwell’s overarching idea in the introduction is that the outliers, or people who succeed, always think beyond themselves, look over, …show more content…
He put coding in his first priority and constantly worked on his ability until he got better over time. He was practicing coding. As for The Beatles, they would not become this successful if they didn't have the opportunity to perform countless times during the beginning of their careers. They performed at so many different places at different times and days that they became better and better. They were good because they practiced playing their music. Bill Gates spent a tremendous amount of time doing computer programming that he decided not to do anything else, and he became really good at it eventually. These three scenarios show that “practice isn’t the thing you do once you’re good. It’s the thing you do that makes you …show more content…
I’ve loved math even before reading this chapter. The contents clearly explain the reason why I love math so much -- because I’m really good at it, I love math more than others do. I’ve never thought about why I have good math abilities. Only after the author talked about the relation between math abilities and the language one used to learn math, I found the reason. Using Chinese to learn math is so much straightforward because it takes less time for me to read out numbers and memorize it. On the other side, when using English to learn math, one has to deal with not only math, but also English grammar.
Epilogue
When Gladwell states that “the outlier in the end is not an outlier at all,” he means that outliers are outliers because they receive a series of opportunities and advantages in addition to the potential and intelligence they already have. The reason why some people succeed is not that they have better abilities, but that they have better luck in some situations and there are more opportunities offered to them that led them to the road of success. On the other hand, one who has amazing potentials to be an outlier would not necessarily succeed because of the combination of different factors that happen in one’s