Bill Gates Gladwell Analysis

In the fifth section, Gladwell talks about the story of the Beatles, how they were given opportunities and how practicing over ten thousand hours led them to achieve a great success. The author focuses on the nine several opportunities that Bill Gates had, he uses it to prove to us that Bill Gates thrived due to different factors and not just from his talent. Also, he asserts that opportunities Bill Gates had given him an extra time to practice. In the sixth section, here the author combines the stories of the Hockey players, the Beatles, Bill Joy and Bill Gates to show us a complete picture of the path of success. He asserts that what separates the histories of them is not their talents, but their “extraordinary opportunity”. He supports …show more content…
Here he shows us how the connection between practice, hard work, and success. He gives examples of how various famous people like Mozart, Bill gates, Bill Joy succeeded as a result of loads of practice. He claims that Mozart and the Beetles most especially would not have thrived if they had not clocked in ten thousand hours of practice. For example, Bill Gates succeeded based on the tons of hours of practice, he had, also from the opportunity he had from since from a well to do family where he was able to have access to a computer at a young age. Gladwell claims that Mozart thrived based on the hours of practice, he put into composing a music. Another he gives a connection of opportunity of how the hockey players were being picked at a young age and given a better coach, which gave them more room to succeed as they grew older. Gladwell describes that luck plays a role in an individual’s success, he gives the connections of how a young Canadian boy’s birth month has an impact on the probability of his success in hockey, connections of how the birth month impacts the probability of the success of soccer players. The author also gave a connection of how birth month influences the probability of students succeeding in their