Malcolm Gladwell

worked to be successful. In the Outliers book "Malcolm Gladwell" argues that we should look at the world that surrounds successful people. For instance their culture, family, experiences, and their upbringing. Gladwell has made an interesting argument about how people become successful. In this paper, I will be talking about how Bradley Byrne, US Representative for Alabama became successful using some information from Gladwell’s arguments. Gladwell wants to convince readers that different kinds…

In his article, Malcolm Gladwell claims to understand how people become masters in a certain field; Gladwell believes a person must practice for 10,000 hours. His 10,000-hour rule receives criticism from other writers; Jared Sandman and David Bradley belong to this group of critics. Jared Sandman disagrees with Gladwell’s claim; instead, he challenges Gladwell’s claim by adopting the 500,000-word rule. The 500,000-word rule demonstrates a person’s writing career more quickly than the 10,000-…

Malcolm Gladwell explains how revolution has changed over time, he expressed that our way of thinking, our way of doing thing has evolved by the way society thinks and how technology has advanced. But he also tells us why we have forgotten how to create a revolution of big events that have happened in our World thru out time. This event shaped the way that we see things and the way that we do thing. According to Malcolm Gladwell, he described Revolution like “a core of dedicated and trained…

Gladwell’s book Outliers, he writes a chapter called “The Ethnic Theory of Plane Crashes”. While some might say that his book is glib, poorly reasoned, and thoroughly unconvincing, this book is exciting and draws the reader in. In the beginning, Gladwell writes about a plane crash and then throughout the chapter, he adds in facts and examples to back-up his claim: cultural differences can cause many plane crashes. He also uses italics in this chapter to show his voice and thoughts on the story,…

Just Do It Success is the correct or desired result of an attempt. Malcolm Gladwell the author of the book Outliers concludes how we can achieve success and he adds that success can be defined in different kinds of ways, but whichever definition we choose it will require an enormous amount of hard work. There are a lot of ways to become successful then we think and each of them consists overlapping identical factors that we need to keep in mind. The factors are such as having opportunities,…

most recent bestseller, “Outliers”, Malcolm Gladwell examines the many different layers of success; how did the best of the best attain wealth, recognition, and happiness (not necessarily in that order) while doing something they generally enjoyed. How much did arbitrary advantages and disadvantages affect the success rate of these people and what had the biggest impact: these arbitrary aforementioned things or the many hours of hard work they put in? Gladwell has planted the many seeds needed…

When I first read The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference by Malcolm Gladwell, I was incredibly intrigued by the notions presented throughout the book. It intuitively makes sense that changes will add up over time to a significant change; after all, “Rome was not built in a day.” However, throughout this book Gladwell explores the counterintuitive concept about the foundation of epidemics. He realizes that epidemics are not caused by long term change, but rather by the…

Malcom Gladwell is an award winning English-Canadian, author, journalist and speaker. He is active contributor and staff writer for “The New Yorker” and a bestselling author. In his two well-known essays “Being Nice isn’t really so awful” and “Small changes: Why revolution will not be tweeted”, he argues the impact of the Internet in our social life. While both this essays have in the center the modern civilization and the age of the internet, in the first essay: “Being nice isn’t really awful”,…

In the novel The Outliers written by Malcolm Gladwell, Gladwell explains how and why some people succeed with impactful lives and others don’t even if they try their hardest. He looks at the lives of professional hockey players, Bill Gates, the founder of Microsoft, and many more people explaining how they’re considered outliers. He explains how some people were deserving of their success, how some weren’t, how some people earned theirs, and how others were just in the right place at the right…

When Malcolm Gladwell was asked why he was so interested in social epidemics, he said that he thought of them as “a way of making sense of the world.” Social epidemics, otherwise known as popular culture trends, are usually thought to originate independently without correlation. Could there be a pattern behind these epidemics? Gladwell, a New York Times staff writer, answers this question in his 2000 book, The Tipping Point. In this book, Gladwell discusses several social epidemics, including…