An Analysis Of Malcolm's 10, 000-Hour

To begin, Gladwell provides solid evidence to prove that the more a person practices, the better they become at that activity. He provides readers with a study of violinists conducted by scientists. This experiment shows that the more the student practices the better they become. The student who practiced the most became an expert. Comparatively, the study showed the number of hours in which a student practices and how that number indicates a certain level of mastery. The key number in the study was ten thousand hours. Practice is directly related to how great a person becomes at something. Gladwell, explains these things in detail and with specific evidence to back it up. To add on, Gladwell states, "And what's more, the people at the top don't work harder, they work much, much harder"(Gladwell,11). This quote tells readers that to become great at something one must work at it, therefore proving that people have their own control over their fate. The author uses Motzart as another example in the story. He explains that Motzart worked hard since he was a child. He did not become great until the later years, indicating he practiced and practiced until he achieved greatness. Altogether, the more effort a person puts in determines how successful they are. Malcolm Gladwell conveys to his readers that humans have control over their own destiny due to

In the reading, The 10,000-Hour Rule, by Malcolm Gladwell he writes about practicing for a certain amount of time to really master something. I believe that his argument isn’t too credible and it doesn’t apply to every field.

How many hours of someone’s life are necessary to perfect a skill? 300? 5000? Perhaps try 10,000 hours. In this chapter from Outliers, “The 10,000-Hour Rule”, Malcolm Gladwell argues that talent isn’t innate, but takes 10,000 hours to perfect a skill based on opportunity, talent, and practice. Throughout the chapter “The 10,000-Hour Rule”, Malcolm Gladwell effectively relies on logos--evidence from well-known figures and charts that show age similarities--to support his theory that it takes a particular window of time to offer someone the opportunity to practice for 10,000 hours to succeed at a skill. However, Gladwell ineffectively relies on repetition of evidence and failure to

In the Outliers: The Story of Success written by Malcolm Gladwell, one main idea introduced is that the success of an individual generates from the ‘10,000-hour rule’. Gladwell comments, “researchers have settled on what they believe is the magic number for true expertise: ten thousand hours.” (40) The idea behind it is simple. Any person who wants to succeed must devote ten thousand hours of practice to what they want to achieve. Gladwell also suggests that instead of viewing a person by their success, people should focus on where the success thrived from.

Throughout the second chapter in Malcolm Gladwell’s book, he reiterated this idea of a “10,000-Hour Rule”, that all artists and professionals must practice at least ten-thousand hours in order to be great, but he failed to add some form of disclaimer. Gladwell left out the portion of artists with well over ten-thousand hours of practice, who still haven’t mastered their craft. For example, there are many comedians who have been cracking jokes their whole life, but still lack the sense of professionalism that the more renowned comedians share. Gladwell uses musicians as his subject when he says, “...none of them...floated effortlessly to the top by practicing a fraction of the time…” , but why doesn’t he use other forms of activities

According to Gladwell, there is a 10,000-hour rule which details that if you want to become an expert in something that you would need to practice that skill for at least 10,000 hours. Practice in reality is a primary factor in determining your success: "Practice isn't the thing you do once you're good. It's the thing you do that makes you good." (Gladwell 59). If people did not condition themselves to practice for a number of excruciating numbers during the week, would we have people such as Yo-Yo Ma or Beethoven, both

In the second chapter of his book “Outliers: The Story of Success,” Malcolm Gladwell introduces what he believes to be a key ingredient in the recipe for success: practice. The number of hours he says one must practice to obtain expert-level proficiency in a particular skill is ten thousand hours. He goes on to list several examples of successful individuals and makes the correlation between the amount of hours they practiced their skill and when they achieved expert-level proficiency (almost always around ten thousand hours of practice). While the magic number appears to be the main focus of the chapter when it comes to success, Gladwell seems to put more emphasis on the advantage and opportunities each individual experienced. However, I

While reading the Malcolm X narrative, I found my mind wandering off to watching football. As vivid images of my favorite team winning were racing through head, I found it hard to concentrate. My television was on and of course it was tuned to the pregame show. This was probably not the best time to be reading.

Think of something you are passionate about. Is it a skill that you are able to push yourself in? People are always told that with enough hard work you could become a master of that skill. Even without natural talent, enough hard work at a skill will eventually build up the ability. By constantly pushing oneself past their limits during practice, they can improve quicker than someone who has the natural ability and doesn’t try. However, skill doesn’t always equal success. As Malcolm Gladwell states in his book The Outliers, luck plays a large role in the ability to obtain the 10,000 hours required to become an expert in a subject. However, many studies and even the researchers of the 10,000 hour study have rejected the rule outright. I disagree with Gladwell that 10,000 hours is required to become a master, and that luck plays a much larger role than he states.

Despite Gladwell’s many different theories of success, his claim that expertise comes with 10,000 hours of practice is not an accurate example of the complexity of success. Gladwell argues in Outliers that if everyone had the opportunity of time practicing, more people could become experts. Yet, the ‘10,000 Rule’ is not true from person to person. According to Dr. Fiona McQuarrie, 10,000 hours was only the average of the group that is considered to be experts, not necessarily the accumulated total of each person. One person can be an expert with less practice time than another. She states in her blog, “...the best violinist and the best pianists had accumulated an average of 7,410 hours and 7,606 hours of practice time respectively.” (McQuarrie)

Life of Reinvention is an amazing work of investigation done by Manning Marable. He was a professor of history at Columbia University and studied the African-American history, political science and racial connection. Marable saw was a world seized by rivaling history of African-American self-determination and the fundamental reformers, primarily working-class and affected by the temper speech of Marcus Garvey who prioritized independence that was familiar with the idea of segregation. His experiences gave him the competence and the awareness to involve with the problems of the working-class Black society.

“The Klansmen shouted threats and warnings at her that we better get out of town because ‘the good Christian white people’ were not going to stand for my father’s ‘spreading

The 1950's and 1960's were a time of racial turmoil throughout most of the United States. Segregation between blacks and whites was still in full effect, African Americans had to drink from different water fountains, eat at different restaurants, and even shop at different stores than their Anglo "neighbors". Many people and organizations fought valiantly for equality in the U.S. such as Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King jr. and the NAACP. The roles they played were critical in the civil rights movement were critical, the actions they took included peaceful demonstrations and marches, public speeches, and boycotts such as the one that took place in Montgomery, Alabama in 1955. One man stands out among all of these leaders though, Malcolm X.

Lansing did not hold many opportunities of any kind for a young black man then, so without a particular plan, Malcolm X went to live with his half-sister, Ella, in Boston. Malcolm X looked, and almost immediately found trouble. He fell in with a group of gamblers and thieves, and began shining shoes at the Roseland State Ballroom. There he learned the trades that would eventually take him to jail dealing in bootleg liquor and illegal drugs. Malcolm X characterized his life then as one completely lacking in self-respect. Many journalists would emphasize Malcolm X’s “shady” past when describing the older man, his clean-cut lifestyle, and the aims of the Nation of Islam. In some cases, these references were an attempt to damage Malcolm X’s credibility, but economically disadvantaged people have found his early years to be a point of commonality, and Malcolm X himself was proud of how far he had come. He spared no detail of his youth in his autobiography, and used his Nation of Islam ideas to interpret them. Dancing, drinking, and even his hair style were represented by Malcolm X to be marks of shame and self-hatred. Relaxed hair in particular was an anathema to Malcolm X for the rest of his life; he described his first “conk” in the autobiography this way: “This was my first really big step toward self-degradation: when I endured all of that pain of the hair-straightening chemicals, literally burning my flesh to have it

Or so I am told. I recently read a book called Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell. In it Gladwell tells the stories of successful people and explains how they became successful based on their circumstances, situations, and cultural legacies. In particular, Gladwell wrote a chapter about what has become to be known as “The 10,000 Hour Rule.” This rule states that after 10,000 hours of practice a person, no matter who they are, will be an expert at that skill. Although I agree with Gladwell in his knowledge, practice, and a lot of it, is necessary to become an expert in something, I cannot accept his statement that 10,000 hours