In the book Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell, he discuses success and what it takes to achieve it. Though Gladwell makes many points in his argument about success in Outliers that I do not agree with, there is one, where he states “…if you work hard enough and assert yourself, and use your mind and imagination, you can shape the world to your desires” (Gladwell 151). His statement rings with many due to of how it connects with many people as well as the actual results many experience from it. So to begin with who may connect with this and see the rewards, an exanimation of rice farming in Asia might just be the case. Foremost Gladwell writes about how other factors can lead to someone’s success but as mentioned above, hard work can shape the
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This puts the farmers in Asia in a position of adapt and to work hard in order to survive, as such stated in the book where it says, “Chinese proverbs are striking in their belief ‘that hard work, shrewd planning and self-reliance or cooperation with a small group will in time bring recompense’”(Gladwell 238). As to continue on, the reason rice farmer’s today still do their job because it’s their hard work and assertion that lead them to the job being meaningful and the reward they receive yields more than compared to farmers that do not work as hard. More evidence Gladwell gives in Outliers on the rice farmers he states, “It was meaningful. First, there is a clear relationship in rice farming between effort and reward. The harder you work a rice field, the more it yields” (Gladwell 236). That goes to emphasize that the rice farmers work hard in order to shape their world to the desire, which is that they are successful with their business and that their work has meaning to it. Gladwell brings up the point of how immigrants to the West from Asia or even just students from Asia excel more in math than in other parts of the world, and why? Because it is cultural tradition of working …show more content…
Those lines depict how he is determined to assert himself and work hard in order for his world to forge around his desires and aspirations. When talking about how he loves his work he is inadvertently agreeing with Gladwell by basically saying he fines meaning in what he does which usually leads to hard work and success. Also within the song, he mentions the effort he dedicates in order to master his art which to him is the ultimate reward he can yield such as farmer mastering his skill in order to yield the most crops in order to have success. All of this connecting back to the idea of hard work and shape the world to your desires, which in both cases is
This puts the farmers in Asia in a position of adapt and to work hard in order to survive, as such stated in the book where it says, “Chinese proverbs are striking in their belief ‘that hard work, shrewd planning and self-reliance or cooperation with a small group will in time bring recompense’”(Gladwell 238). As to continue on, the reason rice farmer’s today still do their job because it’s their hard work and assertion that lead them to the job being meaningful and the reward they receive yields more than compared to farmers that do not work as hard. More evidence Gladwell gives in Outliers on the rice farmers he states, “It was meaningful. First, there is a clear relationship in rice farming between effort and reward. The harder you work a rice field, the more it yields” (Gladwell 236). That goes to emphasize that the rice farmers work hard in order to shape their world to the desire, which is that they are successful with their business and that their work has meaning to it. Gladwell brings up the point of how immigrants to the West from Asia or even just students from Asia excel more in math than in other parts of the world, and why? Because it is cultural tradition of working …show more content…
Those lines depict how he is determined to assert himself and work hard in order for his world to forge around his desires and aspirations. When talking about how he loves his work he is inadvertently agreeing with Gladwell by basically saying he fines meaning in what he does which usually leads to hard work and success. Also within the song, he mentions the effort he dedicates in order to master his art which to him is the ultimate reward he can yield such as farmer mastering his skill in order to yield the most crops in order to have success. All of this connecting back to the idea of hard work and shape the world to your desires, which in both cases is