Analysis Of Outliers By Malcolm Gladwell

Malcolm Gladwell, the author of Outliers, a novel depicting success, provides different examples of how an individual can achieve success in every chapter of his book to show his audience that success, despite a variety of barriers, is in fact in our control. A very important chapter titled, “Marita's Bargain”, explains the flaws in today’s public school systems. He shows the problems with the solutions to fix them while showing the alternatives to the regular system such as the KIPP Program in New York. The KIPP Program (Knowledge is Power Program) is a new kind of middle school that selects students from less fortunate locations and uses unique teaching strategies to turn them around into fantastic learners. In the chapter, Gladwell is extremely descriptive by using visual words to paint the picture of the South Bronx in New York City. He describes the buildings that were built in the 1960’s as squat and bleak looking. Gladwell had an interest in this subject as it involves success, however he had no prior experiences to produce the piece. Gladwell establishes personal credibility through the use of knowledge, reason, and facts and figures. He comes across very knowledgeable on the subject presenting great data with excellent vocabulary. He is able to do this with no obvious bias as well. Gladwell shows authority because he is well known for writing novels that involve success. His intention is to teach and explain how schools need to change the length of vacation breaks

Like the book “Outliers” its author Malcolm Gladwell is also an outlier himself. Having all of his books published as well as becoming a NY times best selling author, accomplishing a great feat. According to the Huffington Post website, in human history only, 130 million books were published. While the number may not seem big, it is not a small amount compared to the people who want to be great authors. Gladwell being able to accomplish his success as an author, makes him more accomplished than many others in his field; Therefore making him an outlier. According to “Outliers” in the epilogue, Gladwell talks about how he became an outlier because of extrinsic factors Gladwell was able to become an outlier. There are several extrinsic factors

Prompt: Write an essay that defends or challenges or qualifies Gladwell’s assertion that “if you work hard enough and assert yourself, and you use your mind and imagination, you can shape the world to your desires” (Gladwell 151).

Chapter 6 of Matthew Gladwell’s book Outliers, there are illustrations of many family feuds. While the feuds were horrific, they were indicative of pattern which existed within the Appalachian Mountains and surrounding areas. The region was seemingly plagued by a “culture of honor” (p. 167). Because of the ancestral heritage of the “Scotch Irish”, these mountaineers were willing to fight at the slightest challenge to their reputation (p. 167). This behavior results from the need to survive, and is strengthened by the clannish ways of the people. This inevitable violent way of life is correlated to the number of murders in the South, and the implication is these murders are personal, in the same way family feuds were in previous years. Moreover

In Malcolm Gladwell's Outliers he argues that outliers, people who have achieved success almost entirely by their own means through perseverance and hard work, are not possible. Gladwell claims instead that people achieve success primarily through the opportunities they are born with or are presented with throughout their life.

Gladwell then contrasts two figures: Chris langan and Robert Oppenheimer. One individual fits the mold of an outlier, the other does not. Langan was a talented individual who had the highest recorded I.Q. in history. However, those who haven’t read this book have not been informed of this individual. That is simply because langan was a failure. He never graduated college and therefore wasn’t able to grasp success. Langan lacked guidance as a child and wasn’t able to socialize, and this contributed to his academic downfall. During his youth, Langan was poverty stricken and was raised by an alcoholic stepfather and his mother. As stated previously, outliers are individuals who are presented extraordinary opportunities and advantages, both which Langan were not

Gladwell’s book Outliers is the most interesting book I have ever read. I say that because of the ideas that are presented and the way that he presents those ideas. He uses stories with characters to get the ball rolling of what he was to talk about. He then uses other books, professionals, and experiments to provide reasoning for his ideas. The chapter that I especially liked, and that I thought he did a good job of getting his point across in was chapter 6— “Harlan, Kentucky”. I believe in this chapter he did his best job of trying to get his point across which is, cultural background plays a bigger part in our way of living than we realize.

Malcolm Gladwell, in his novel entitled, “Outliers,” explores the landscape of success and shows us that success comes from the culture that surrounds the successful , not their intelligence and ambition. Gladwell explains this through a series of situations and studies. In Part One, he discusses success as a result of timing, such as the month or year you were born. In Part Two, he focuses on cultural legacies and how they play a role in helping someone become successful. He unfolds the reasons why hockey players are not born in the latter part of the year, why the Beatles and Bill Gates were able to become so successful, and why Jewish immigrants were able to become successful lawyers and doctors. Gladwell disproves many beliefs by discovering

Throughout the process of how Canadian hockey sport selects their top of the top hockey players for the Memorial Cup, Gladwell proves that these top players are successful not only because of their hard work but also because of the advantage of the earlier birth month which give them more opportunity in the competence compared to others who was born in later month of the year. Gladwell argues that the inequitable “cutoff date matter” as in “other […] areas” (33), for example in education. He urges that our society need to change the way we think of success in which “we miss opportunities to lift others” (32). He also suggests that education system should change to let children “compete” each others whose don’t

While the author, Malcolm Gladwell, does not dispute that hard work in a necessary component, we learn that many factors, lucky breaks, and some coincidences all occur in making high achievers into true outliers. We also learn that many of the richest, most famous, and most successful people in

The glass ceiling represents the invisible barrier in the professional world between men and women, or minorities. It holds those back from being able to reach their full potential, which is also presented in Malcolm Gladwell’s Outliers, where he describes Canadian hockey players, and those who are born in the first few months of the year are often more successful. The cut off date for Canadian hockey is January 1ts, making the children born around that date the oldest (Gladwell). These children are often chosen for more advanced leagues, giving them better coaching and more opportunities. The enhanced coaching pushes them above everyone else, and increases the talent gap between kids their age born in later months. This is an example of the Matthew Effect, which demonstrates how the successful get more successful while the latter get left behind.

“Marita’s Bargain” is an excerpt from Malcolm Gladwell’s book “Outliers: The Story of Success.” The book examines success and why some people achieve it and others do not. In this section, Gladwell focuses on the KIPP Academy, a school in the South Bronx that overcomes the difficulties and the harsh socioeconomic factors present in the location. Throughout the story, Gladwell uses an easy, to the point style, some expert quotes, Tables and a scientific approach, to argue for a change in the current education system.

In Outliers, focusing on outliers, defined by Gladwell as people who do not fit into our normal understanding of achievement, Outliers deals with exceptional people, especially those who are smart, rich, and successful, and those who operate at the extreme outer edge of what is statistically possible. Malcolm Gladwell interviews Bill Gates and focuses on the opportunities given to him throughout his lifetime that have led to his success. A common theme that appears throughout Outliers is the "10,000-Hour Rule", based on a study by Anders Ericsson. If you become clearer about what you focused on from the ages of 13 to 18, you will become clearer about where to focus your wealth creation efforts.

Growing up in a world where fake news and irrational arguments can be considered a daily occurrence, one could read Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell with a skeptical eye. Readers may try to pick out details that have been used as gimmicks to hook readers into buying it. However, once readers move past these thoughts, they can find that the ideology that Gladwell uses to describe what makes a person successful to be reasonable and worthwhile. He states in his introduction, “They had to appreciate the idea that the values of the world we inhabit and the people we surround ourselves with have a profound effect on who we are,” (Gladwell, 10-11). This analogy makes perfect sense if you have the mindset that success isn’t something that always relies on hard work, but the resources and opportunities that are given to someone willing to change their life for the better. Therefore, after analyzing this book, it is clear to readers that Gladwell is saying that success is something that is caused by many uncontrollable factors that we nowadays brush off as luck and grit.

I have recently finished reading *Outliers* by Malcom Gladwell and I personally consider the book to be a piece of idiosyncratic brilliance. As I read chapter after chapter I have put some thought into the idea of intelligence and what it is that makes some more successful than others. Though I will have to say that success is subjective, not only measured by the amount of dollars in a bank account, the number of assets, or degrees, yet these are measures generally use as indicators of success given the correlation among them. Gladwell 's explanation of what makes an individual an outlier is sensible to those of us who inquire a comprehensive explanation of the aforementioned topic of discussion.