Outlier

environment. All Asian Americans are not highly intelligent or skilled in these areas, although many have grown up in a home environment that strongly supports education. In Malcolm Gladwell's book, Outliers there is a reasonable explanation for this phenomenon that has to do with linguistics and math. (See Outliers chapter 8) Here is an example of how even a "good" stereotype can be…

When society thinks of those higher up, the geniuses, CEOs, lawyers, and physicians of the world, the general thought is that they were born with an abnormally high IQ, or that they’re self made and became a 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…

Malcolm Gladwell’s goal of his book “Outliers,” is simply to help his audience have a better understanding of what makes people successful. I can see that Gladwell’s points are backed up with examples, evidence, and statistics, which can be very convincing. However, I feel as though Gladwell is somewhat contradictory while trying to achieve his goal. I felt this after reading Chapter 2. In this chapter, Gladwell discusses the idea of hard work and devotion, alluding to the 10,000 rule, using…

Parenting styles and the environment in which they are surrounded by matter. In the Outliers, Chris Langan is the oldest of four sons (each with different fathers) and his father disappeared before he was born. His mother was married four times, the last one she married was the only one still alive. Chris Langan and his family were very much in the lower end of the working and poor class. He acted as a father figure to his siblings because they lacked that authority and needed someone to keep…

Malcolm Gladwell's novel The Outliers has provoked many different feelings including liberation, curiosity, and even helplessness. However, after reading this novel, the feeling of inspiration trumps all others. Throughout Gladwell’s book, he used a variety of different people from different backgrounds, ethnicities, and education levels to show how they became or did not become successful. In the end, if a person was born at the right time, had the correct background, were in a specific…

The overview of this chapter of the novel Outliers is showing how Jewish people were not able to become lawyers and how they started their own firms and became wealthy. Joe Flom is a lawyer, and a partner of his own law firm. In the first section “The Importance of being Jewish”, Jewish immigrants came to America in the late 1800’s with no money and made a living for themselves. The children of these Jewish immigrants became either lawyers or doctors because of the analytical luck they were…

children the equipment to flourish in their work. Importantly, tenacity is the skill of determination and persistence combined; it is an admirable quality to hold. Many people know John Heywood’s saying, “Rome wasn’t built in a day.” In fact, in “Outliers: The Story of Success,” the notion of being “good” at a task requires a minimum practice time of around ten thousand hours. The author also claims that the time to master a skill is vast. Tenacious people normally tend to excel because of their…

In the book, Outliers: The Story of Success, by Malcolm Gladwell, the author is challenging our views of how people become successful. He is saying that to get to where you want to be you can’t rely solely on hard work or determination. It takes much more than that, something that many of us don’t get; opportunities. If you want to be successful, you need a series of opportunities that present themselves to you at the right time, to put you ahead of everyone else. He proves this idea in chapter…

that can take many years to achieve. All the people who became successful with millions or billions of dollars did not just get lucky. People usually think that they just become lucky with fame and money, but that is not true. Based on the novel Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell there are many theories on how people became successful, and if we knew about these theories then many more of us would be able to become successful in life. It all starts when we are children and how our parents raise us to…

Malcolm Gladwell's, “Outliers: The Story of Success” illustrates the illusion and the blind luck of the “self-made man”. The idea of the self-made man has been alive and well in the United States. Hundreds of thousands of people immigrate to the U.S. every year on the dream of a new life full of opportunity and subsequently, success. What Gladwell argues is that there is never any success without ample opportunity. There is no such thing as a real self-made man. Gladwell proves that there cannot…