Malcolm Gladwell

Gladwell is offering this modest self-assessment while seated at the kitchen table of the apartment he rents in a stately West Village townhouse. He’s wearing jeans and one of those wickable running shirts, which fits snugly over his thin frame. His hazel eyes are red-rimmed. His trademark Afro, which he had cut about a month ago, is at frizz-level yellow. He looks, in short, like a caricature of Malcolm Gladwell. He is a well-known figure around his neighborhood, fond of tapping away on his laptop in coffee shops and cafés. His writer’s life is part anachronistic, part futuristic. His Lexus IS—a car, he concedes, he rarely drives—is parked down the street in the space he pays a small fortune to lease. A couple of miles north in Times Square are Gladwell’s editors at The New Yorker, who don’t see him in the office very often—owing to his self-professed “aversion to midtown”—but who grant him a license to write about whatever he chooses and accommodate him with couriers to pick up his fact-checking materials, lest he be forced to overcome that aversion.…

the Top Appearing on the Time Magazine’s one hundred most influential people, Malcolm Gladwell is a Canadian journalist who started his career in New York (Famous Authors). As well as being a bestselling author of four books, Gladwell is a speaker and still continues to work as writer for “The New Yorker” since starting in 1996. His works often deal with research and exploration in the areas of sociology, psychology, and social psychology. On September 3, 1963, Malcolm Gladwell was born in…

Outliers: The Story of Success, written by Malcolm Gladwell, is a non-fiction book analyzing similarities of culture, family, and class of what we define as a successful person. Gladwell examines and breaks down his answers to what most people wonder: “What are the personalities of a successful person?” “Were they born with various gifts that the unsuccessful don’t have?” “What personal aspects of an auspicious individual help shape the peak of what they reach?” Countless written autobiographies…

Successful writer, Malcolm Gladwell in his book, argues that on human being can’t be successful on his own, it often happens by opportunity. He supports this claim by first using examples to state the time and effort you need to put in. Then, Gladwell uses anecdotes and stories of people’s success. Next, Gladwell goes on to talk about people’s cultural background. Finally, he uses a personal story to tie the book all together. Gladwell adopts a serious tone for adults of all kind. Gladwell…

Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell is a non-fiction book written in 2008. “Outlier” is a scientific term to describe things or phenomena that lie outside of normal experience. Gladwell explains he’s “interested in people who are outliers—in men and women who, for one reason or another, are so accomplished and so extraordinary and so outside of ordinary experience” (Gladwell.com). Gladwell writes books when he finds himself returning to the same themes again and again. He explains, “The book grew out…

This course is the grand finale of my studies to obtain my associate degree. I have completed several courses that involved formal writing and I feel this class was a great conclusion to the first part of my educational journey. As I reflect on the past eight weeks, I would describe this Cornerstone Seminar course as very educational and a bit overwhelming. This last assignment is my digital portfolio of my writing and research technique throughout this course. Beginning with Malcolm…

Kipp Schools that have longer school days, shorter summer vacations, a solid protocol, and plenty of homework produce successful students. The author, Malcolm Gladwell grew up in rural Ontario, where he was born to an English father and Jamaican mother. Malcolm Gladwell is also the author of some bestselling books. Malcolm Gladwell did experimental research called the Kipp Academy in one of the poorest areas. In Kipp schools a lot of students will attend private high schools and college. Many…

In the national bestseller novel, The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference, Malcolm Gladwell discusses how ideas and products become popular, thus reaching its “tipping point”. According to Gladwell, the tipping point is when an idea, trend, or social behavior crosses a threshold, tips, and spreads like wildfire. One idea goes viral but not the others and Malcolm was determined to find out why. With years of research and experiments and analysis done, Gladwell concludes…

product of only their own hard work. Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell, however, argues that there’s an underlying “background” of success. Gladwell argues that “there's no such thing as a self-made man and that super achievers are successful because of their circumstances, their families, and their appetite for hard work.” I agree with Gladwell to a very large extent, as when one looks at the presented ideas that success, does indeed, come from community and opportunities, it becomes apparent that…

Malcolm Gladwell’s book, Outliers-The Story of Success, gives a unique view on the subject of success. Gladwell disparages the standard “rags to riches” stories, where an individual can rise to success solely because of individual merit and talent. He argues that one’s circumstances and external forces hold a significant amount of importance in regards to achieving success. Through Gladwell’s analysis on success stories such as Bill Gates and the Beatles, he deems a mixture of one’s upbringing,…