Book Report On Outliers By Malcolm Gladwell

Malcolm Gladwell’s Outliers defines an outlier as “a statistical observation that is markedly different in value from the others of the sample.” According to this definition, an outlier in society is one who achieves something highly unusual when compared to their peers. According to the theory Outliers presents, success is based not only on one’s individual merit, but on the accumulative advantages they gain throughout their lives. Seemingly arbitrary circumstances such as the time and place of one’s birth can affect the entire course of their life. Society’s outliers are produced from an extremely unusual set of circumstances that allows them to diverge from the paths of those around them. One such example of an outlier comes from F. Scott

An Outlier is someone who stands out in a group due to their mastery of a certain skill and because of that they are successful. According to Gladwell not anyone can become successful; it takes the right circumstances and opportunities. Human’s capability seems limitless, and if we put in the time and hard work we can achieve our goals. We as a society love to think that a person may become successful and that we all have the same opportunities and chance of succeeding if we just work hard enough. According to Malcom Gladwell, the author of the book Outlier’s these common beliefs are incorrect and are not the means of a person becoming successful. The main theme throughout Gladwell’s Outlier’s is that successful

The author explains exactly what the professional asserts and how particular pieces of evidence relate to Gladwell’s unconventional idea of success.

“There is something profoundly wrong with the way we make sense of success” (Gladwell 18). In Outliers Malcolm Gladwell is trying to convince his audience that they misunderstand how people become successful. Many believe one only needs hard work and determination in order to achieve success. However, Gladwell complicates this idea by explaining that hard work and determination is not how people become successful and instead, it is all about the opportunities one is given that decides if he or she is successful or not. Gladwell uses the rhetorical appeals of pathos and ethos in order to persuade his audience to accept his idea of the process of becoming successful.

Gladwell used Aristotle’s techniques of rhetoric, by appealing to ethos, pathos, and logos successfully to further persuade his audience of his argument. First, Gladwell established his character by displaying himself as an intellectual, honest, and of good intentions through his writing style and word choice. Secondly, Gladwell masterfully used pathos to emotionally influenced his audience from their interests and concerns about success to make his argument appeal to his specific audience. Third, Gladwell utilized logos to make his argument strong without emotional and trustworthy factors interfering, and his case stood on its own. Gladwell also mentioned problems and his offered solutions which would alter his thesis of success through a hockey example that is trying to fix the age gap concerning development, “We could set up two or even three hockey leagues, divided up by month of birth. Let the players develop on separate tracks and then pick all-star teams,” (33). As a society, we must change the pattern of success and prove Gladwell’s thesis wrong; we can help one another to be the community required so everyone can prosper and create a sense of equity. Through Gladwell’s efficient use of establishing an image to

Outliers is Malcolm Gladwell 's examination of what makes some people excessively more successful than others. These "outliers," as he calls them, are commonly thought to possess talent and intelligence far above that of the average person, but he challenges this popular belief by looking at the background of some notable outliers.

In many instances, those who are successful are made out to be some sort of separate breed, those who were innately able to perform remarkable feats that others, no matter how hard they tried, simply could not. Through this exhibition, many people view success as an elusive feature that only a select few can obtain. This theory is the main inspiration for Malcolm Gladwell’s exploration of success in Outliers: The Story of Success. In the book, Gladwell analyzes not only those who are successful, such as Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, J.R. Oppenheimer, and Joe Flom, but what path led them towards becoming exceptionally skilled. This extremely in-depth analysis of successfulness forms Gladwell’s layered theory of what creates success, and his attempt

Despite the fact that I do not entirely agree with Gladwell’s full theory on the effect of cultural legacies, there is a portion of it that is insightful. When examining someone’s success, we must consider where they came from as a factor towards that success. The culture that is imbedded in them tends to make certain behaviors more common in people with those values. In Gladwell’s book, Outliers, he introduces a study in chapter eight about a woman named Renee. A professor named Alan Schoenfeld created a program designed to teach algebra and was taping Renee while she figured out a problem. It took her 22 minutes to solve the problem, but her persistence was the reason why she was able to figure it out. Gladwell states on page 247 that, “... imagine a country where Renee’s doggedness is not the exception, but a cultural trait, embedded as deeply as the culture of honor in the Cumberland Plateau.” He explains that

Babe Didrikson’s fantastic achievements have made her one of the best athletes in history. Her world records have set an example for all women athletes. Her medals have shown that anyone can be great. She also shows that athlete are responsible people who can have a life and help form an entire association. Babe is an inspiration and a role model to which many current athletes still look up to and aspire to be

Then goes and re-examines each story in such a detail matter, that he pinpoints the unknown facts that led to that person success. Gladwell unmasked our so called "big shoots" in our nation through a series of factual, ethical, and emotional evidence. He uses a structured balance between logos, and ethos to truly define an outlier in our society. In the first chapter of the Outliers Gladwell

It wasn’t the first time the legendary Babe Didrikson took the mound in a Major League Baseball game, but it turned out to be the most eventful. During the 1934 spring training season in Florida, the woman known as the greatest female athlete in the world was making the MLB exhibition circuit. On March 21, 1934, she would be part of one of the rarest plays in professional sports.

A true outlier would be someone who differs from all other members of a group, but Malcolm Gladwell says that this is not the case. When Gladwell says that “The outlier in the end is not an outlier at all”, he means that the people we see as outliers had a lot of help to reach the level of success that they achieved. “Outliers” such as Bill Gates, Joseph Flom are considered the best of the best in their respective fields. They did not just get to the top of their fields from their own personal qualities. Although all of these people had amazing work ethics, they also had many opportunities that their peers did not have. This can be seen when Gladwell says, “it would be simpler to look at Joe Flom and call him the greatest lawyer ever even

Babe endorsed working, going to school, and playing sports. She was most famous for her remarkable performance in basketball, golf, and track and field. She claimed many titles and sadly, she lost her battle with cancer at the young age of 45.

There still was a belief that women were too frail physically and mentally to participate in intense competition like Olympics. However, in 1932, Mildred “ Babe” Didrikson disproved this belief by winning two Olympic gold medals and one silver medal in track and field. She had also won every golf tournament she competed in. Her great victories influenced the acceptance of

Since the beginning of this century women like Babe Didrickson and Billy Jean King have brought female athletes into mainstream acceptance. In earlier times women had not only not been encouraged to be physical it was thought to be harmful for