Chapter 7 Of Outliers By Gwen Gladwell

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.

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

The introduction of Outliers begins with an inspection of Italian American immigrants near the end of the 19th century, the founders of a small town in Pennsylvania, called Roseto. In a study conducted by physician Stewart Wolf, et al. researchers set out to decide how the people of Roseto were able to live longer, healthier lives than that of the people in the towns of the same region, as well as the rest of the nation. The secret of the success for the people of Roseto could be found in a nearly unanimous social integration, which focused on respect for elders, a common set of religious beliefs, and an egalitarian way of thinking. Wolf’s findings introduced the medical community to a new way of

All children are not raised the same exact way. There are many different parenting styles, ranging from authoritative to neglectful parenting. Along with those many different styles also come many different opinions on which ones are better or worse for children. Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell is a book that essentially looks into many factors that contribute to people's successes. In chapter four, Gladwell writes about how different parenting philosophies impact how successful the children will be when they are older. Gladwell claims that there are essentially only two main parenting philosophies, “concerted cultivation” and “accomplishment of natural growth” (Gladwell 104). Gladwell goes on to also claim that between those two parenting philosophies, children raised from concerted

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

The first chapter of the book Outliers is titled “The Matthew Effect.” Malcolm Gladwell uses this title as a reference to a verse in the bible from the book of Matthew. The verse is basically saying that those who have a lot, will get more and those who don’t have a lot, will get less. Gladwell uses this chapter to show his view on what makes people successful in life. The example he begins with involves young Canadian hockey players.

"The Sports Gene" by David Epstein takes on the debate of nature versus nurture by using a Donald Thomas a new high jump who is already good and Carlos Mattis who practice all his life just to be good. The Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell uses the augment of 10,000-hour rule and preparation by basing his research at the Elite Academy of Music in Berlin. Control means "the power to influence or direct people's behavior or the course of events." "The Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell makes a more convincing argument than ''The Sports Gene" by David Epstein answering the question how much of our lives do we control? To begin, in "The Sports Gene" by David Epstein he takes different position on control.

In Chapter 4 of Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell, talks about the Chris Langan who is “a man with a one-in-a-million mind, and he had yet to have any impact on the world. He wasn’t holding forth at academic conferences. He wasn’t leading a graduate seminar,” (114).

Typically used for college sports, redshirting is now being applied to the American education system to kindergartners. In the book “Outliers: The Story of Success” by Malcolm Gladwell, redshirting (being held back a year to have some sort of advantage) happens when Gladwell goes into the sport of Canada: hockey. Gladwell continued on about redshirting by comparing all the players on the team and how all/most of their birthdays were in January, February, and March. He went on to explain that players with “cutoff” birthdays were going to be “ahead of the curve” because the will have the advantage if they are redshirted. This is not fair to the younger and maybe more talented kids for team selection.

The novel Outliers, aims to investigate the very thing we want for our family, our students, and ourselves. For most of our lives we have believed that with hard work, anyone can achieve success. That had to be the reason that poor immigrants like Andrew Carnegie and college dropouts like Bill Gates achieved unimaginable wealth. Most of us were taught that working harder than anyone else would lead to ultimate success.

Another reason that I feel Gladwell is a credible author for Outliers is because of his mother’s occupation as a psychotherapist. There is a possibility that his mother’s findings influenced his ideas, or perhaps her occupation influenced him all together to research such sociological and psychological topics.

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

Visualize a ball of clay, perfectly round, cold, and anxiously waiting for its potter to form it into a masterpiece. The ball is prepared for molding and the process begins. The strong hands of the potter pull the ball, squish the ball, and rubs out any imperfections. The potter brushes the newly shaped clay with glaze that seems to be dull and lacks beauty at every angle, but little does the viewer know that this pot holds secrets because their eye deceives them and doesn’t allow them to see the lively color lying beneath the surface. The potter makes yet another examination of the pot to be sure that he has erased any blemish or imperfection before gently placing it into the kiln. The kiln fires the pot allowing the pot’s colors to come through

Although a lot of accidents of flight most affect with the human factors. But another big factor I think is the hazardous weather situations. If these two things combine together it’s will have the high possibility to happen an accident. Like the biggest aviation accident in 1977 years

Ranging from mechanical/electrical issues to meteorological phenomena, most aircraft accidents involve not one or two issues leading up to an accident, but sometimes more than half a dozen. And more often than not, these issues can in some way be traced back to failures relating to human factors, rather than failures on behalf of the aircraft.