Success mean’s accomplishing your goals. A successful person is the one who achieves his/her desired aims or attains prosperity. A successful person does not have to be wealthy. You can be successful if you achieved your goal that you had set for yourself. Outliers, is a book about twentieth century it offers a fascinating look at how people became successful. Malcom Gladwell is the author of Outliers. Gladwell’s main goal in Outliers is to help people understand how success happens. Gladwell himself is a successful person his writings are very popular. He has been a staff writer for “The New Yorker” since 1996. In Outlier’s, Gladwell explains several different factors that contribute to success. He provides examples of different people
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I also used the concept cultural legacies and its influence on person’s success to explain Shakeel’s success story. Shakeel and Joe were influenced by the hard work of their parent’s and were always told to pursue their dreams and work hard for them.
Thesis Statement: Joe and Shakeel both have several things in common related to their success stories. When it comes to success where we come from and our background plays a huge role. Both were born up in a culture where effort and hard work was met up with reward. Both had hard working parents. It’s clear that the value their culture placed on them had a great influence in them being …show more content…
Not only can I relate his writing’s to my cousin’s story I personally think that I myself can fit into the same concepts. Since I immigrated to United States as well and my parents have also worked hard I can easily relate myself to Joe Flom on couple of aspects. Cultural legacies do play a major role in shaping person’s life and his/her decision’s. Back home I was always told that doctors make good money and live a happy lifestyle so here I am pursuing a medical degree even though I like Bio-Science but if it wasn’t to make my dad proud that all of his hard earned money is not going to be a waste I would probably be pursuing a music or song writing career with no definite future because that’s what I
I also used the concept cultural legacies and its influence on person’s success to explain Shakeel’s success story. Shakeel and Joe were influenced by the hard work of their parent’s and were always told to pursue their dreams and work hard for them.
Thesis Statement: Joe and Shakeel both have several things in common related to their success stories. When it comes to success where we come from and our background plays a huge role. Both were born up in a culture where effort and hard work was met up with reward. Both had hard working parents. It’s clear that the value their culture placed on them had a great influence in them being …show more content…
Not only can I relate his writing’s to my cousin’s story I personally think that I myself can fit into the same concepts. Since I immigrated to United States as well and my parents have also worked hard I can easily relate myself to Joe Flom on couple of aspects. Cultural legacies do play a major role in shaping person’s life and his/her decision’s. Back home I was always told that doctors make good money and live a happy lifestyle so here I am pursuing a medical degree even though I like Bio-Science but if it wasn’t to make my dad proud that all of his hard earned money is not going to be a waste I would probably be pursuing a music or song writing career with no definite future because that’s what I